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Chris Taylor

is an assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago. He writes and teaches about nineteenth-century Caribbean literature and its relation to imperial economic and political theory.

Essays & Reviews

Plantation Neoliberalism

By Chris TaylorJuly 8, 2014
Is an intense fixation on the present simply the best way to make slavery disappear?
Essays & Reviews

Romancing the Archive

By Chris TaylorFebruary 25, 2014
A new Trinidadian novel tries a new approach to the traditionally vexed Carribean relationship to history
Essays & Reviews

The Ardor of Secession

By Chris TaylorDecember 7, 2012
We come, then, to the secret meaning of the secessionist petitions: They evince not a rejection of, but a desperation for, an intimate union with the state.
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