Charles Chesnutt Reappraised

Essays on the First Major African American Fiction Writer

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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One of the best known and most widely read of early African American writers, Charles W. Chesnutt published more than fifty short stories, six novels, two plays, a biography of Frederick Douglass, and countless essays, poems, letters, journals, and speeches. Though he had light skin and was of mixed race, Chesnutt self-identified as a black man, and his writing was often boldly political, openly addressing problems of racial identity and injustice in the late 19th century.This collection of critical essays reevaluates the Chesnutt legacy, introducing new scholarship reflective of the many facets of his fiction, especially his sophisticated narrative strategies.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-04-14
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt331 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor246
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786441112

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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