Tag: Charles Chesnutt

  • Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels [Review] Rocky Mountain Review Rocky Mountain Language Association Volume 61, Number 1 (Spring 2007) pages 41-43 Susana M. Morris, Assistant Professor of English Auburn University Ryan Simmons. Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. 198p. Ryan Simmons’ Chesnutt and Realism:…

  • 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   With the release of previously unpublished novels and a recent proliferation of critical studies on his life and work,…

  • The House Behind the Cedars Houghton, Mifflin and Company 1900 294 pages Electronic Edition University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1997 Text scanned (OCR) by Jamie Vacca Text encoded by Natalia Smith and Don Sechler Filesize: ca. 600KB Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)    The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CH database “A Digitized…

  • Charles W. Chesnutt and the Engendering of a Post-Reconstruction Multiracial Politics The Conversation Number 2 (2009-2010) Kirin Wachter-Grene Once a promising fiction writer and would-be spokesman for African-Americans, Charles W. Chesnutt promoted a form of multiracialism but is largely forgotten today. Kirin Wachter-Grene traces the development of Chesnutt’s ideas about the amalgamation of races and…

  • Untragic Mulatto: Charles Chesnutt and the Discourse of Whiteness American Literary History Volume 8, Number 3 (Fall 1996) pages 426-448 DOI: 10.1093/alh/8.3.426 Stephen P. Knadler Among Charles Chesnutt’s earliest political essays is a little studied piece that he wrote for the New York Independent entitled “What Is a White Man?” (1889). At a time when…

  • The Marrow of Tradition: Electronic Edition Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1901 329 pages Electronic Edition University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1997 Text scanned (OCR) by Kathy Graham Text encoded by Teresa Church and Natalia Smith Filesize: ca. 600KB Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) The electronic edition is a…

  • “Whiteness in the Novels of Charles W. Chesnutt” is the first study to focus exclusively on Chesnutt’s novels. Examining the three published in Chesnutt’s lifetime—”The House Behind the Cedars,” “The Marrow of Tradition,” and “The Colonel’s Dream”—as well as his posthumously published novels, this study explores the dilemma of a black writer who wrote primarily…

  • The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination Peter Lang Publishing Group 2004 198 pages ISBN: 978-0-8204-6206-6 Carlyle Van Thompson, Acting Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Education Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York The Tragic Black Buck examines the phenomenon, often paradoxical, of black males passing for white…

  • An exploration of a great American writer’s abiding concern with the color line

  • Dislocating the Color Line: Identity, Hybridity, and Singularity in African-American Narrative Stanford University Press 1997 280 pages Cloth ISBN-10: 0804727740; ISBN-13: 9780804727747 Paper ISBN-10: 0804727759; ISBN-13: 9780804727754 Samira Kawash, Associate Professor Women’s and Gender Studies Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Inquiries into the meaning and force of race in American culture have largely…