Chain-Gang Gothic
The Colonel’s Dream and the Spectacular Terrors of State Punishment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895849 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jason Haslam (0000-0003-2106-3505, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 220-240 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras.2018.020 |
| OpenAlex | W2995512317 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
Charles Chesnutt’s 1905 novel The Colonel’s Dream meditates on the structures of spectacle and ignorance that create a continuity of white privilege and white supremacy from North to South, and on the role that the nascent prison-industrial complex plays in that process. Chesnutt uses occasional gothic irruptions within his otherwise realist and sentimental form to show how “hidden” and spectacular punishments, legal and extra-legal state violence, all function to impose a purposeful ignorance of their very existence: punishments, their spectacular renditions, and the public’s turning away from them combine to become a structuring aporia that maintains white supremacy in the face of democratic resistance
Aesthetics · Art · Dream · Ignorance · Political science · Prison · Privilege (computing · Punishment (psychology · Racism · Spectacle · State (computer science · White (mutation · White supremacy · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
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Between Absorption and Extinction
Prisons, Asylums, and the Public
The Prison and the Factory
The Prison and the American Imagination
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Reconstructing the Criminal
That Friendship of the Whites”
Discipline and Punish
An Utterly Dark Spot
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |