{"id":13028,"date":"2011-04-01T04:18:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T04:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13028"},"modified":"2011-10-18T05:06:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T05:06:39","slug":"chesnutt-and-realism-a-study-of-the-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13028","title":{"rendered":"Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novel<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The University of Alabama Press
\n<\/a>2006
\n208 pages
\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-1520-7
\nE-Book ISBN: 978-0-8173-8228-5<\/p>\n

Ryan Simmons<\/strong><\/p>\n

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An important examination of Charles Chesnutt<\/a> as a practitioner of realism.
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\nWith the release of previously unpublished novels and a recent proliferation of critical studies on his life and work, Charles W. Chesnutt (1858\u20131932) has emerged as a major American writer of his time\u2014the age of Howells<\/a>, Twain<\/a>, and Wharton<\/a>. In Chesnutt and Realism<\/em>, Ryan Simmons breaks new ground by theorizing how understandings of literary realism<\/a> have shaped, and can continue to shape, the reception of Chesnutt\u2019s work.
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\nAlthough Chesnutt is typically acknowledged as the most prominent African American writer of the realist period, little attention has been paid to the central question of this study: what does it mean to call Chesnutt a realist? A writer whose career was circumscribed by the dismal racial politics of his era, Chesnutt refused to conform to literary conventions for depicting race. Nor did he use his imaginative skills to evade the realities he and other African Americans faced. Rather, he experimented with ways of portraying reality that could elicit an appropriate, proportionate response to it, as Simmons demonstrates in extended readings of each of Chestnutt\u2019s novels, including important unpublished works that have been overlooked by previous critics.
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\nChesnutt and Realism<\/em> also addresses a curiously neglected subject in American literary studies\u2014the relationship between American literary realism and race. By taking Chesnutt seriously as a contributor to realism, this book articulates the strategies by which one African American intellectual helped to define the discourses that influenced his fate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. \u00a0 With the release of previously unpublished novels and a recent proliferation of critical studies on his life and work, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1196,8,17,20],"tags":[333,898,897,5855,5856],"class_list":["post-13028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-charles-chesnutt","tag-charles-w-chesnutt","tag-charles-waddell-chesnutt","tag-ryan-simmons","tag-university-of-alabama-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13028","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=13028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}