African American Realism

C. A. Wooley
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Critical accounts of American literary realism have often focused on how realism is an intervention in, rather than a simple representation of, reality. Truth, however, remains a powerful referent for realists and a particularly complex one for postbellum African American writers whose works exemplify, but also interrogate, realism as a mode of representation. This chapter argues that linking African American writers such as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Chesnutt to the realism of William Dean Howells reveals how for these writers, realism itself becomes a way to interrogate the power of stories to define what is true and to intervene in such assumptions. At the same time, these authors’ works increasingly show the limits of such interventions in relation to the intractability of racialized and racist discourse—and the racial disparities such discourse reinforces—at the turn of the twentieth century.
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非裔美国人现实主义
对美国文学现实主义的批评往往集中在现实主义是如何介入现实的,而不是对现实的简单再现。然而,对于现实主义者来说,真理仍然是一个强有力的参考,对于战后的非裔美国作家来说,真理是一个特别复杂的参考,他们的作品是现实主义作为一种表现方式的例证,但也质疑现实主义。这一章认为将非裔美国作家如保罗·劳伦斯·邓巴和查尔斯·切斯纳特与威廉·迪恩·豪威尔斯的现实主义联系起来揭示了对这些作家来说,现实主义本身是如何成为一种方式来询问故事的力量来定义什么是真实的并干预这些假设。与此同时,这些作者的作品越来越多地表明,在20世纪之交,这种干预与种族化和种族主义话语的棘手性以及这种话语所强化的种族差异有关。
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