Tag: Benjamin S. Lawson

  • Witnessing Charles Chesnutt: The Contexts of “The Dumb Witness” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 38, Issue 4 (December 2013) pages 103-121 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlt045 Benjamin S. Lawson Florida State University The silence and silencing of the character Viney in Charles Chesnutt’s short story, “The Dumb Witness” (c. 1897), artfully addresses the issue of…