{"id":36995,"date":"2014-11-09T17:46:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T17:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36995"},"modified":"2022-03-21T18:51:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T18:51:42","slug":"the-colonels-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36995","title":{"rendered":"The Colonel’s Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Colonel’s Dream<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

West Virginia University Press<\/a>
\nOctober 2014 (originally published in 1905)
\n352 pages
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-935978-91-6
\nCloth ISBN: 978-1-940425-23-8
\nePub ISBN: 978-1-935978-93-0
\nPDF ISBN: 978-1-935978-92-3<\/p>\n

Charles W. Chesnutt<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Edited by:<\/p>\n

R. J. Ellis<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of American Studies
\nUniversity of Birmingham, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African American writer, essayist, Civil Rights activist, legal-stenography businessman, and lawyer whose novels and short stories explore race, racism, and the problematic contours of African Americans\u2019 social and cultural identities in post-Civil War South. He was the first African American to be published by a major American publishing house and served as a beacon-point for future African American writers.<\/p>\n

The Colonel\u2019s Dream<\/em>, written in 1905, is a compelling tale of the post-Civil War South\u2019s degeneration into a region awash with virulent racist practices against African Americans: segregation, lynchings, disenfranchisement, convict-labor exploitation, and endemic violent repression. The events in this novel are powerfully depicted from the point of view of a philanthropic but unreliable southern white colonel. Upon his return to the South, the colonel learns to abhor this southern world, as a tale of vicious racism unfolds. Throughout this narrative, Chesnutt confronts the deteriorating position of African Americans in an increasingly hostile South. Upon its publication The Colonel\u2019s Dream<\/em> was considered too controversial and unpalatable because of its bitter criticisms of southern white prejudice and northern indifference, and so this groundbreaking story failed to gain public attention and acclaim.<\/p>\n

This is the first scholarly edition of The Colonel\u2019s Dream<\/em>. It includes an introduction and notes by R. J. Ellis and works to reestablish this great novel\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Colonel’s Dream West Virginia University Press October 2014 (originally published in 1905) 352 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-935978-91-6 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-940425-23-8 ePub ISBN: 978-1-935978-93-0 PDF ISBN: 978-1-935978-92-3 Charles W. Chesnutt Edited by: R. J. Ellis, Professor of American Studies University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African American writer, essayist, Civil […]<\/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":[333,898,897,17688,16629],"class_list":["post-36995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-usa","tag-charles-chesnutt","tag-charles-w-chesnutt","tag-charles-waddell-chesnutt","tag-r-j-ellis","tag-west-virginia-university-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36995","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=36995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63502,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36995\/revisions\/63502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}