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The passing of Charles Chesnutt: Mining the white tradition Wasafiri Volume 13, Issue 27 pages 5-10 DOI 10.1080/02690059808589583 Sarah Meer, Lecturer of English Univeristy of Cambridge In May 1880, the young Charles Chesnutt confided to his diary his ambition to write a book. Its object would be ‘not so much the elevation of the colored people’—the concern…
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An Analysis of the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt Drake University February 1988 121 pages Harold James Bruxvoort A Dissertation Presented to The College of Arts and Sciences Drake University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Arts Summary of Author: Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) is a black short story author…
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Into the box and out of the picture: The rhetorical management of the mulatto in the Jim Crow era Duke University 2005 573 pages Publication Number: AAT 3250085 Jené Lee Schoenfeld Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English in the Graduate School…
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt and the Solution to the Race Problem Negro American Literature Forum Volume 3, Number 2 (Summer, 1969) pagess 52-56 June Socken Charles Waddell Chesnutt, the first American Negro short story writer and novelist of recognized professional quality, squarely faced the problem of Negro-White relations in America. Although his short story “The Wife…
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Rena’s Two Bodies: Gender and Whiteness in Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars Studies in the Novel Volume 43, Numbers 1 (Spring 2011) pages 38-54 E-ISSN: 1934-1512 Print ISSN: 0039-3827 Melissa Ryan, Associate Professor of English Alfred University, Alfred, New York In a letter thirty years after The House Behind the Cedars was published,…
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Visually white, legally black: Miscegenation, the mulatto, and passing in American literature and culture, 1865–1933 Illinois State University 2004 193 pages Publication Number: AAT 3128271 Karen A. Chachere Many historians and literary scholars characterize the period between 1865-1933 as America’s preoccupation with the “Negro Question.” Admittedly, America was intrigued by the idea of the former…
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The Writer’s Almanac Podcast with Garrison Keillor [Charles Wadell Chesnutt] The Writer’s Almanac 2011-06-20 Garrison Keillor, Host Today in history and a poem or two. It’s the birthday of Charles Waddell Chesnutt (books by this author), born on this day in Cleveland (1858). His parents were free mixed-race Southerners who left Fayetteville, North Carolina, for…
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The Mule as Metaphor in the Fiction of Charles Waddell Chesnutt Theory and Practice in English Studies Volume 4 (2005): Proceedings from the Eighth Conference of British, American and Canadian Studies. Brno: Masarykova univerzita Christopher E. Koy, Faculty of Arts University of West Bohemia, Plzen The term “mulatto,” meaning the offspring of one black parent…
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Mandy Oxendine University of Illinois Press September 1997 136 pages ISBN-10: 0252063473 ISBN-13: 9780252063473 Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) Foreword by William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill In a novel rejected by a major publisher in the 19th century as too shocking for its time, writer Charles…
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Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novel The University of Alabama Press 2006 208 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-1520-7 E-Book ISBN: 978-0-8173-8228-5 Ryan Simmons An important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism. With the release of previously unpublished novels and a recent proliferation of critical studies on his life and work,…