“No-Body’s Watch”

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dc.bibliographicCitation.article6
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume71
dc.contributor.authorHoepker, Karin
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-25T18:24:49Z
dc.date.available2025-02-25T18:24:49Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis article outlines the rather obscure ascent and fall of the loafer as a cultural figure. Beginning with the emergence of the term and its ambivalent semantics of idleness, I will sketch its subsequent racialization and regionalization, as it was appropriated by abolitionist writers who associated with whiteness, poverty, and southern masculinity. The significance of the term lies in the way it combines criticisms of capitalism and racism in a figure of idleness. A figure of idleness, both in its romanticized and disparaging connotations, the loafer alerts us to the fact that US nineteenth-century temporality is closely and inseparably entangled in the history of capitalism and slavery.
dc.identifier.doi10.18422/71-06
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/3359
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publishedInGöttingen
dc.publisherGöttingen University Press
dc.relation.issn2750-7327
dc.relation.journalNew American Studies Journal
dc.relation.journalaltA Forum
dc.rightsL::CC BY-SA 4.0
dc.subject.ddcddc:305.3
dc.subject.ddcddc:305
dc.subject.ddcddc:810
dc.subject.ddcddc:973
dc.subject.fieldamericanstudies
dc.subject.fieldliterarystudies
dc.subject.fieldhistory
dc.subject.fieldgenderstudies
dc.title“No-Body’s Watch”
dc.title.alternativeNineteenth-Century Capitalism, Temporality, and the Figure of the Loafer
dc.typearticle
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
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