Coming to Accounts: Fraud and Muckraking in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition
This article traces the rhetoric of accounting in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century racial discourse, from its initial use by slave traders, to its reinscription (or re-metaphorization) as “fraud” by abolitionists, and finally to its turn-of-the-century valence in exposing the linguisti...
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European Association for American Studies
2013-11-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/10148 |