{"id":36989,"date":"2014-08-06T18:46:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T18:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36989"},"modified":"2014-08-06T18:46:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T18:46:28","slug":"where-a-man-is-a-man-ancestral-possibilities-in-charles-chesnutts-paul-marchand-f-m-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36989","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhere a Man is a Man\u201d?: Ancestral Possibilities in Charles Chesnutt\u2019s Paul Marchand, F.M.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/login?auth=0&amp;type=summary&amp;url=\/journals\/african_american_review\/v046\/46.2-3.marren.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u201cWhere a Man is a Man\u201d?: Ancestral Possibilities in Charles Chesnutt\u2019s<\/strong><\/em><strong> Paul Marchand, F.M.C.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/african_american_review\" target=\"_blank\">African American Review<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/african_american_review\/toc\/afa.46.2-3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 46, Numbers 2-3, Summer\/Fall 2013<\/a><br \/>\npages 397-411<br \/>\nDOI: 10.1353\/afa.2013.0048<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.uark.edu\/Faculty\/Susan_M_Marren.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Susan M. Marren<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor<br \/>\n<em>University of Arkansas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This essay reads <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_W._Chesnutt\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Chesnutt\u2019s<\/a> <em>Paul Marchand, F.M.C<\/em>. not as a historical romance (as Chesnutt\u2019s contemporaneous publishers deemed it) but rather as a peculiarly modernist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a> novel. It argues that the novel\u2019s hybrid possibilities stage a confrontation between an eighteenth-century standard of impartial \u201cright reason\u201d and the racially pluralistic world of nineteenth-century <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhere a Man is a Man\u201d?: Ancestral Possibilities in Charles Chesnutt\u2019s Paul Marchand, F.M.C. African American Review Volume 46, Numbers 2-3, Summer\/Fall 2013 pages 397-411 DOI: 10.1353\/afa.2013.0048 Susan M. Marren, Associate Professor University of Arkansas This essay reads Charles Chesnutt\u2019s Paul Marchand, F.M.C. not as a historical romance (as Chesnutt\u2019s contemporaneous publishers deemed it) but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,369,8,6462,20],"tags":[333,898,897,1438,17677,17678],"class_list":["post-36989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-charles-chesnutt","tag-charles-w-chesnutt","tag-charles-waddell-chesnutt","tag-new-orleans","tag-susan-m-marren","tag-susan-marren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36989","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=36989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}