David Garrett Izzo is an emeritus professor of English who has published 16 books and 60 essays of literary scholarship, as well as three novels and two plays. He lives in Haw River, North Carolina. Maria Orban is an assistant professor of English at Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionMARIA ORBAN      1. Charles W. Chesnutt, Jack Thorne and the African American Literary Response to the 1898 Wilmington Race RiotLINDA BELAU AND ED CAMERON      2. “The fruit of my own imagination”: Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition in the Age of RealismWILLIE J. HARRELL, JR.      3. “I shall leave the realm of fiction”: Conjure, Genre, and Passing in the Fiction of Charles W. ChesnuttCHRISTOPHER BUNDRICK      4. “Those folks downstairs believe in ghosts”: The Eradication of Folklore in the Novels of Charles W. ChesnuttWILEY CASH      5. The Fiction of Race: Folklore to Classical LiteratureMARIA ORBAN      6. Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars: An Outlaw(ed) ReadingCOLEMAN C. MYRON      7. Reading the Transgressive Body: Phenomenology in the Stories of Charles W. ChesnuttKIM KIRKPATRICK      8. “Your people will never rise in the world”: Chesnutt’s Message to a Black ReadershipTYRIE J. SMITH      9. Vanished Past and Vanishing Point: Charles W. Chesnutt’s Short Stories and the Problem of American Historical MemoryZOE TRODD      10. All Green with Epic Potential: Chesnutt Goes to the Marrow of Tradition to Re-Construct America’s Epic BodyGREGORY E. RUTLEDGE      11. “The Wife of His Youth”: A Trickster TaleCYNTHIA WACHTELL      12. With Myriad Subtleties: Recognizing an Africanist Presence in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Conjure WomanTIEL LUNDY      13. Passing for What? The Marrow of Tradition’s Minstrel Critique of the Unlawfulness ofJULIE IROMUANYA      14. Geographies of Freedom: Race, Mobility, and Uplift in Charles W. Chesnutt’s Northern WritingMICHELLE TAYLOR      15. Motherhood, Martyrdom and Cultural Dichotomy in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the CedarsB. OMEGA MOORE      Epilogue: The Gifts of AmbiguityMICHELLE TAYLOR      About the Contributors      Index

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David Garrett Izzo is an emeritus professor of English who has published 16 books and 60 essays of literary scholarship, as well as three novels and two plays. He lives in Haw River, North Carolina. Maria Orban is an assistant professor of English at Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionMARIA ORBAN      1. Charles W. Chesnutt, Jack Thorne and the African American Literary Response to the 1898 Wilmington Race RiotLINDA BELAU AND ED CAMERON      2. “The fruit of my own imagination”: Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition in the Age of RealismWILLIE J. HARRELL, JR.      3. “I shall leave the realm of fiction”: Conjure, Genre, and Passing in the Fiction of Charles W. ChesnuttCHRISTOPHER BUNDRICK      4. “Those folks downstairs believe in ghosts”: The Eradication of Folklore in the Novels of Charles W. ChesnuttWILEY CASH      5. The Fiction of Race: Folklore to Classical LiteratureMARIA ORBAN      6. Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars: An Outlaw(ed) ReadingCOLEMAN C. MYRON      7. Reading the Transgressive Body: Phenomenology in the Stories of Charles W. ChesnuttKIM KIRKPATRICK      8. “Your people will never rise in the world”: Chesnutt’s Message to a Black ReadershipTYRIE J. SMITH      9. Vanished Past and Vanishing Point: Charles W. Chesnutt’s Short Stories and the Problem of American Historical MemoryZOE TRODD      10. All Green with Epic Potential: Chesnutt Goes to the Marrow of Tradition to Re-Construct America’s Epic BodyGREGORY E. RUTLEDGE      11. “The Wife of His Youth”: A Trickster TaleCYNTHIA WACHTELL      12. With Myriad Subtleties: Recognizing an Africanist Presence in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Conjure WomanTIEL LUNDY      13. Passing for What? The Marrow of Tradition’s Minstrel Critique of the Unlawfulness ofJULIE IROMUANYA      14. Geographies of Freedom: Race, Mobility, and Uplift in Charles W. Chesnutt’s Northern WritingMICHELLE TAYLOR      15. Motherhood, Martyrdom and Cultural Dichotomy in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the CedarsB. OMEGA MOORE      Epilogue: The Gifts of AmbiguityMICHELLE TAYLOR      About the Contributors      Index

“recommended”—Choice.

David Garrett Izzo is an emeritus professor of English who has published 16 books and 60 essays of literary scholarship, as well as three novels and two plays. He lives in Haw River, North Carolina. Maria Orban is an assistant professor of English at Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionMARIA ORBAN      1. Charles W. Chesnutt, Jack Thorne and the African American Literary Response to the 1898 Wilmington Race RiotLINDA BELAU AND ED CAMERON      2. “The fruit of my own imagination”: Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition in the Age of RealismWILLIE J. HARRELL, JR.      3. “I shall leave the realm of fiction”: Conjure, Genre, and Passing in the Fiction of Charles W. ChesnuttCHRISTOPHER BUNDRICK      4. “Those folks downstairs believe in ghosts”: The Eradication of Folklore in the Novels of Charles W. ChesnuttWILEY CASH      5. The Fiction of Race: Folklore to Classical LiteratureMARIA ORBAN      6. Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars: An Outlaw(ed) ReadingCOLEMAN C. MYRON      7. Reading the Transgressive Body: Phenomenology in the Stories of Charles W. ChesnuttKIM KIRKPATRICK      8. “Your people will never rise in the world”: Chesnutt’s Message to a Black ReadershipTYRIE J. SMITH      9. Vanished Past and Vanishing Point: Charles W. Chesnutt’s Short Stories and the Problem of American Historical MemoryZOE TRODD      10. All Green with Epic Potential: Chesnutt Goes to the Marrow of Tradition to Re-Construct America’s Epic BodyGREGORY E. RUTLEDGE      11. “The Wife of His Youth”: A Trickster TaleCYNTHIA WACHTELL      12. With Myriad Subtleties: Recognizing an Africanist Presence in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Conjure WomanTIEL LUNDY      13. Passing for What? The Marrow of Tradition’s Minstrel Critique of the Unlawfulness ofJULIE IROMUANYA      14. Geographies of Freedom: Race, Mobility, and Uplift in Charles W. Chesnutt’s Northern WritingMICHELLE TAYLOR      15. Motherhood, Martyrdom and Cultural Dichotomy in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the CedarsB. OMEGA MOORE      Epilogue: The Gifts of AmbiguityMICHELLE TAYLOR      About the Contributors      Index

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