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<p>In Charles Chesnutt’s <i>The House Behind the Cedars</i>&#xa0;(1900), the residents of Clarence, South Carolina take part in a ring tournament, which allows them to engage affectively and materially with an imagined chivalric past through which they can indulge in a collective fantasy of race-making and nation-building. Time resists linearity throughout the novel, just as race and citizenship resist being read as static categories. The layered nature of time maps onto the unstable categories of race and citizenship in the post–Civil War South of Chesnutt’s novel and provides new ways for conceptualizing the relatedness of race and citizenship.</p>

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Being ‘heretical about our chivalry’: Time, race, and national belonging in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars

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    2025年3月26日

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  • Courtney A. Parker

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In Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars (1900), the residents of Clarence, South Carolina take part in a ring tournament, which allows them to engage affectively and materially with an imagined chivalric past through which they can indulge in a collective fantasy of race-making and nation-building. Time resists linearity throughout the novel, just as race and citizenship resist being read as static categories. The layered nature of time maps onto the unstable categories of race and citizenship in the post–Civil War South of Chesnutt’s novel and provides new ways for conceptualizing the relatedness of race and citizenship.