Situated adjacent to the essentializing logics and combative rhetorics that have largely defined the Trump administration's “war” on history, specifically regarding initiatives such as the “White House Conference on American History” and the “1776 Commission,” this afterword considers the distinctive significance and ongoing consequence of ethnic American literary engagements with a frequently debated and still unreconciled US past. To illustrate both the relevance and resonance of such literary productions, the afterword accesses Jackson Bliss's short story “Secret Codes & Oppressive Histories” (which is featured in the special issue) and briefly considers William Shakespeare's The Tempest, the source text for the oft-utilized notion that the past functions as prologue. By way of conclusion, the afterword turns to cultural critic Lisa Lowe's evocative articulation of “reckoning” as a productive and liberatory means of “revisit[ing] times of historical contingency and possibility to consider alternatives that may have been unthought in those times.”

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后记——种族化的过去是种族主义的序幕：特朗普时代历史小说的相关性和共鸣

与在很大程度上定义了特朗普政府对历史的“战争”，特别是关于“白宫美国历史会议”和“1776 委员会”等倡议的本质化逻辑和好斗的言辞相邻，这篇后记考虑了独特的意义和美国族裔文学与经常争论但仍然不和的美国过去交往的持续后果。为了说明此类文学作品的相关性和共鸣，后记访问了杰克逊·布利斯的短篇小说“秘密密码与压迫性历史”（特刊中的特色），并简要考虑了威廉·莎士比亚的《暴风雨》，这是经常-利用过去作为序幕的概念。作为结论，