Carlene Hatcher Polite’s The Flagellants went out of print soon after its release in 1967; attempts at its revival, following a 1987 reprint, failed to assert its place in American literary study. A non-linear narrative, chronicling the disintegrating relationship of two African American New York City transplants, The Flagellants offers a mixture of ideological commentaries—on patriarchy, women writers, and nationalism. In its time, it was a difficult novel to take. But as this article reveals, the novel’s difficulty did not lie in its depictions, but in how it challenged interpretations of its ideological position. This article uncovers how such an inventive novel was disallowed from leaving its impact on historical understandings of its time. The story of The Flagellants ’ disappearance emerges from historicizing the Black Arts Movement, in which it was read in 1967. This examination illuminates why, even today, the novel is rarely found in academic writing or on college syllabi.

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重新思考卡琳·海切尔·波利特的《鞭笞者》中的美学和意识形态

Carlene Hatcher Polite 的 The Flagellants 在 1967 年出版后不久就绝版了；1987 年重印后，其复兴的尝试未能在美国文学研究中确立其地位。一个非线性叙事，记录了两个非裔美国人纽约市移植的瓦解关系，鞭笞者提供了意识形态评论的混合——关于父权制、女性作家和民族主义。在那个时代，这是一部难以接受的小说。但正如本文所揭示的，这部小说的难点不在于它的描写，而在于它如何挑战对其意识形态立场的解释。这篇文章揭示了这样一部创造性的小说是如何被禁止对当时的历史理解产生影响的。鞭笞者失踪的故事源于黑人艺术运动的历史化，