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Tag: Charles W. Chesnutt
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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 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:…
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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 With the release of previously unpublished novels and a recent proliferation of critical studies on his life and work,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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“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…
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Family Matters in the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt The Southern Literary Journal Volume 33, Number 2, Spring 2001 pages 30-43 E-ISSN: 1534-1461 Print ISSN: 0038-4291 DOI: 10.1353/slj.2001.0012 William M. Ramsey, Professor of English Francis Marion University Writing fiction one hundred years ago, Charles W. Chesnutt believed that America’s racial future was best embodied in…