...Stephen Knadler Duke University Press 2007 Stephen Sensationalizing Patriotism: Knadler Sutton Griggs and the Sentimental Nationalism of Citizen Tom ​In Life’s Demands; or, According to Law (1916), Afri- can American novelist, minister...

...Edlie Wong [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 In 1901, Baptist minister and writer Sutton E. Griggs published Overshadowed through his recently established Orion Publishing Company in Nashville, Tennessee. Perhaps the least well-known of his five novels...

... Reviews  835 If Murison depicts antebellum US literature as permeated by notions of nervousness, Williams delineates the great pains Frances E. W. Harper, Sut- ton Griggs, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Pauline Hopkins, and Charles Chesnutt took to describe class divisions within black communities...

... for reparations thirty years on. Chapter 4 shows how the novels of Charles W. Chesnutt and the nonfiction writing of Sutton Griggs anticipate current critical trends—Afropessimism (Chesnutt) and black optimism (Griggs)—and argues that the prophetic modes of thought found in the work of both writers...

... existing between political legibilities—with an organic intellectualism capable of disrupting trenchant identity politics and forming new antiracist political coalitions. Sutton E. Griggs’s novels also speak aptly to concerns in contemporary queer politics about the cooptation of LGBTQ and feminist...

... the occult’’ (14). Attending primarily to the work of Pauline Hopkins, Sutton Griggs, Thomas Dixon, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. DuBois, Gillman turns out a convincing and well-researched argument, especially in her work with DuBois. Although DuBois is possibly the single most influential philosopher...

... centers on texts that obliquely respond to conflicts in the Caribbean and the Philippines and, paradoxically, draw their aesthetic innovation from such veiled encounters. As Gruesser’s finely researched readings of Sutton E. Griggs (chapter 2), James Weldon Johnson (chapter 4), and Pauline Hopkins (coda...

... fortified literary tradition. Babb maintains this anthological approach to black literary history throughout the book. Brief readings of the first professional class of black writers, including Charles W. Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, Frances Harper, Sutton Griggs, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and W. E. B. Du...

... century by attending to four writers who were, for the most part, ignored by critics during their time. The volume centers on close read- ings of works by Jewish American immigrant Mary Antin, South Dakota Sioux author Zitkala-Ša, Southern African American author Sutton E. Griggs...

... democracy” and who saw education as an important instrument in teaching agency and citizenship. Schmidt analyzes the instructional scenes of pro-R­ econstruction authors including Lydia Maria Child, Albion Tourgee, Frances E. W. Harper, and Sutton Griggs in addition to many of their lesser...

... modern US subjects.81 Thus Williams might “point the way,” to borrow the title of Sutton Griggs’s 1908 novel, to a reading practice that makes difference and heterogeneity of historical experi- ence the basis for cross-racial connection and political critique, antici- pating the current scholarship...

.... C. Griggs, 1895], 48). Keeley puts it less dramatically: “[T]he opium eater almost invari- ably understates the extent of his habituation. It is only after he has been restored to a normal condition that he will admit the truth” (Morphine Eater, 23). 34 Anonymous, Opium...

... constituted a powerful organizing rubric for African American literature in this period, functioning as a central concern in the writing of Pauline Hop- kins, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sutton Griggs, Frances E. W. Harper, and Charles W. Chesnutt and in periodicals like Colored American Maga- zine...

... dualism as foreground to ‘‘double consciousness DuBois’s and Booker T. Washington’s conflicting perspectives on the body and political process, Sut- ton Griggs’s and Pauline Hopkins’s considerations of the racial soul...

... dualism as foreground to ‘‘double consciousness DuBois’s and Booker T. Washington’s conflicting perspectives on the body and political process, Sut- ton Griggs’s and Pauline Hopkins’s considerations of the racial soul...

... dualism as foreground to ‘‘double consciousness DuBois’s and Booker T. Washington’s conflicting perspectives on the body and political process, Sut- ton Griggs’s and Pauline Hopkins’s considerations of the racial soul...

... Women: A Study of Middle- Class Culture in America, 1830–1870 (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1982), 101, 111–16. 21 See, for instance, Mme. Celnart, The Gentleman and Lady’s Book of Polite- ness , 5th American ed. (Philadelphia: Grigg and Elliot, 1840), 9; Farrar, Young Lady’s...

... dualism as foreground to ‘‘double consciousness DuBois’s and Booker T. Washington’s conflicting perspectives on the body and political process, Sut- ton Griggs’s and Pauline Hopkins’s considerations of the racial soul...

... dualism as foreground to ‘‘double consciousness DuBois’s and Booker T. Washington’s conflicting perspectives on the body and political process, Sut- ton Griggs’s and Pauline Hopkins’s considerations of the racial soul...

... dualism as foreground to ‘‘double consciousness DuBois’s and Booker T. Washington’s conflicting perspectives on the body and political process, Sut- ton Griggs’s and Pauline Hopkins’s considerations of the racial soul...