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Tag: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
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What is a White Man? The Independent Volume 41 (1889-05-30) pages 5-6 Source: The Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive Charles W. Chesnutt, Esq. The fiat having gone forth from the wise men of the South that the “all-pervading, all-conquering Anglo-Saxon race” must continue forever to exercise exclusive control and direction of the government of this so-called…
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The Colonel’s Dream West Virginia University Press October 2014 (originally published in 1905) 352 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-935978-91-6 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-940425-23-8 ePub ISBN: 978-1-935978-93-0 PDF ISBN: 978-1-935978-92-3 Charles W. Chesnutt Edited by: R. J. Ellis, Professor of American Studies University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African American writer, essayist, Civil…
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Reading Rivalry, Race, and the Rise of a Southern Middle Class in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory Volume 70, Number 3, Autumn 2014 pages 157-184 DOI: 10.1353/arq.2014.0018 Rachel A. Wise, Postdoctoral Fellow Department of English University of Texas, Austin This essay argues that…
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The De(con)struction of Black/White Binaries: Critiques of Passing in Charles Waddell Chesnutt’s “The Wife of His Youth” and Other Stories of the Color Line Callaloo Volume 37, Number 3, Summer 2014 pages 676-691 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2014.0106 Tanfer Emin Tunç, Professor of American Culture and Literature Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey When asked to elaborate on the “Negro…
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“Where a Man is a Man”?: Ancestral Possibilities in Charles Chesnutt’s Paul Marchand, F.M.C. African American Review Volume 46, Numbers 2-3, Summer/Fall 2013 pages 397-411 DOI: 10.1353/afa.2013.0048 Susan M. Marren, Associate Professor University of Arkansas This essay reads Charles Chesnutt’s Paul Marchand, F.M.C. not as a historical romance (as Chesnutt’s contemporaneous publishers deemed it) but…
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Assimilation in Charles W. Chesnutt’s Works University of New Orleans 2013-05-17 41 pages Mary C. Harris A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Master of Arts In English Charles W. Chesnutt captures the essence of the Post Civil War…
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Chesnutt’s Genuine Blacks and Future Americans MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 15, Number 3, Discovery: Research and Interpretation (Autumn, 1988) pages 109-119 SallyAnn H. Ferguson, Professor of English University of North Carolina, Greensboro Scholarship on novelist and short story writer Charles W. Chesnutt stagnates in recent years because his critics have failed to…
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Witnessing Charles Chesnutt: The Contexts of “The Dumb Witness” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 38, Issue 4 (December 2013) pages 103-121 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlt045 Benjamin S. Lawson Florida State University The silence and silencing of the character Viney in Charles Chesnutt’s short story, “The Dumb Witness” (c. 1897), artfully addresses the issue of…
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Liminality in the works: The novels of Charles Chesnutt University of Massachusetts, Amherst September 1996 154 pages Publication Number: AAT 9709591 ISBN: 9780591169812 Susan Jane Doyle Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Charles Chesnutt is perhaps best…