{"id":10730,"date":"2010-12-12T19:30:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T19:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10730"},"modified":"2010-12-12T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T19:35:00","slug":"the-marrow-of-tradition-electronic-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10730","title":{"rendered":"The Marrow of Tradition: Electronic Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/southlit\/chesnuttmarrow\/chesmarrow.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Marrow of Tradition: Electronic Edition<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company<br \/>\nThe Riverside Press, Cambridge<br \/>\n1901<br \/>\n329 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Electronic Edition<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<br \/>\n1997<br \/>\nText scanned (OCR) by Kathy Graham<br \/>\nText encoded by Teresa Church and Natalia Smith<br \/>\nFilesize: ca. 600KB<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_W._Chesnutt\" target=\"_blank\">Charles W. Chesnutt<\/a> (1858-1932)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CH database \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/southlit\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Digitized Library of Southern Literature, Beginnings to 1920.<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>All quotation marks and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as &#8221; and &#8221; respectively. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as &#8216; and &#8216; respectively. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Indentation in lines has not been preserved. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Running titles have not been preserved. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Spell-check and verification made against printed text using Author\/Editor (SoftQuad) and Microsoft Word spell checkers.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Partial summary by <strong>Mary Alice Kirkpatrick<\/strong> from 2004:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Chesnutt\u2019s ambitious and complex novel, <em>The Marrow of Tradition<\/em> (1901), was based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wilmington_Insurrection_of_1898\" target=\"_blank\">1898 race riot<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wilmington,_North_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\">Wilmington, North Carolina<\/a>, which some of Chesnutt\u2019s relatives survived. This event left a considerable number of African Americans dead and expelled thousands more from their homes. Set in the fictional town of Wellington, <em>The Marrow of Tradition<\/em> centers on two prominent families, the Carterets and the Millers, and explores their remarkably intersected lives. Major Philip Carteret, editor of <em>The Morning Chronicle<\/em> newspaper, emerges as the unabashed white supremacist who, along with General Belmont and Captain George McBane, seeks to overthrow \u201cNegro domination,\u201d setting in motion those events that culminate in the murderous \u201crevolution.\u201d Dr. William Miller, following his medical education in the North and abroad, has returned home to \u201chis people,\u201d establishing a local black hospital in Wellington. Dr. Miller\u2019s wife, Janet, is the racially mixed half-sister of Major Carteret\u2019s wife, Olivia. Not surprisingly, Olivia Merkell Carteret struggles to suppress the truth of her father&#8217;s scandalous second marriage to Julia Brown, his black servant and Janet Miller\u2019s mother. The novel also contains several intricate subplots involving a wide cast of secondary characters: a heroic rebel\u2019s vow to avenge his father\u2019s wrongful death; a staged robbery that results in an ostensible murder; romantic entanglements; and endless doublings and pairings of both white and black characters. Yet throughout <em>The Marrow of Tradition<\/em>, Chesnutt depicts the problems afflicting the New South, offering an invective that criticizes the nation\u2019s panicked responses to issues of social equality and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire summary <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/southlit\/chesnuttmarrow\/summary.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire novel here in <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/southlit\/chesnuttmarrow\/chesmarrow.html\" target=\"_blank\">HTML<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/southlit\/chesnuttmarrow\/chesmarrow.xml\" target=\"_blank\">XML\/TEI<\/a> format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,20],"tags":[4698,333,898,897,4700,4699,4701],"class_list":["post-10730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-usa","tag-a-digitized-library-of-southern-literature","tag-charles-chesnutt","tag-charles-w-chesnutt","tag-charles-waddell-chesnutt","tag-mary-a-kirkpatrick","tag-mary-alice-kirkpatrick","tag-mary-kirkpatrick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}