Tag: William L. Andrews

  • The uneasy existence of being black and passing for white.

  • When Ancestry Search Led To Escaped Slave: ‘All I Could Do Was Weep’ Fresh Air (From WHYY in Philadelphia) National Public Radio 2016-01-18 Terry Gross, Host When she was in fifth grade, Regina Mason received a school assignment that would change her life: to connect with her country of origin. That night, she went home…

  • The first fugitive slave narrative in American history

  • Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line: Collected Stories Penguin Classics June 2000 304 pages 5.23 x 7.59in Paperback ISBN: 9780141185026 Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) Edited by: William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Unlike the popular “Uncle Remus” stories of Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W.…

  • 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…

  • Coloring History and Mixing Race in Levina Urbino’s ‘Sunshine in the Palace and Cottage’ and Louise Heaven’s ‘In Bonds’ Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers Volume 24, Number 2 (2007) E-ISSN: 1534-0643, Print ISSN: 0748-4321 DOI: 10.1353/leg.2007.0018 Eric Gardner, Professor of English Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan While the figure of the “tragic mulatta”…

  • The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt Louisiana State University Press March 1999 312 pages Trim: 6 x 9 Paper ISBN-13: 9780807124529 William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The career of any black writer in nineteenth-century American was fraught with difficulties, and William Andrews undertakes to…