Sleep Fictions: A Digital Companion

Animals/Animality

This collection includes all notes that reveal connections between sleep stereotypes and animality as well as the use of animal metaphors to describe sleep-related cultural conditions. 

Also see theme: Pseudoscience

The brute caricature is one example of Progressive-Era stereotypes of Black identity that correlated sleepiness with animality and one that Chesnutt contests in his "Uncle Julius" Tales.

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