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A Monst’us Pow’ful Sleeper
2023
Overview
In 1851, Louisiana doctor Samuel Cartwright declared that lethargy was an innate trait among African Americans that could only be managed through the prescription of hard labor. A half century later, Charles Chesnutt penned his “Uncle Julius” tales (1887–1900), which played on the plantation tradition of local color fiction and drew from slave narratives to challenge scientific racism in the US South and beyond. The stories, told by a formerly enslaved and newly indentured Black inhabitant of a North Carolina plantation, illustrate the South’s incessant demands on Black people’s time. Chesnutt’s stories portray Black characters who resist sleep deprivation and exhaustion by ironically feigning drowsy demeanors in an effort to subvert master clock time on southern plantations in the antebellum era and the New South.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Subject
ISBN
9780252045400, 0252045408
