Charles W Chesnutt And The Fictions Of Race
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Charles W Chesnutt And The Fictions Of Race
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Author : Dean McWilliams
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2010-07-01
Charles W Chesnutt And The Fictions Of Race written by Dean McWilliams and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932) was the first African American writer of fiction to win the attention and approval of America's literary establishment. Looking anew at Chesnutt's public and private writings, his fiction and nonfiction, and his well-known and recently rediscovered works, Dean McWilliams explores Chesnutt's distinctive contribution to American culture: how his stories and novels challenge our dominant cultural narratives--particularly their underlying assumptions about race. The published canon of Chesnutt's work has doubled in the last decade: three novels completed but unpublished in Chesnutt's life have appeared, as have scholarly editions of Chesnutt's journals, his letters, and his essays. This book is the first to offer chapter-length analyses of each of Chesnutt's six novels. It also devotes three chapters to his short fiction. Previous critics have read Chesnutt's nonfiction as biographical background for his fiction. McWilliams is the first to analyze these nonfiction texts as complex verbal artifacts embodying many of the same tensions and ambiguities found in Chesnutt's stories and novels. The book includes separate chapters on Chesnutt's journal and on his important essay "The Future American." Moreover, Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of Race approaches Chesnutt's writings from the perspective of recent literary theory. To a greater extent than any previous study of Chesnutt, it explores the way his texts interrogate and deconstruct the language and the intellectual constructs we use to organize reality. The full effect of this new study is to show us how much more of a twentieth-century writer Chesnutt is than has been previously acknowledged. This accomplishment can only hasten his reemergence as one of our most important observers of race in American culture.
Whiteness In The Novels Of Charles W Chesnutt
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Author : Matthew Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2009-09-18
Whiteness In The Novels Of Charles W Chesnutt written by Matthew Wilson and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932), critically acclaimed for his novels, short stories, and essays, was one of the most ambitious and influential African American writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Today recognized as a major innovator of American fiction, Chesnutt is an important contributor to deromanticizing trends in post–Civil War southern literature, and a singular voice among turn-of-the-century realists who wrote about race in American life. Whiteness in the Novels of Charles W. Chesnutt is the first study to focus exclusively on Chesnutt's novels. Examining the three published in Chesnutt's lifetime—The House Behind the Cedars, The Marrow of Tradition, and The Colonel's Dream—as well as his posthumously published novels, this study explores the dilemma of a black writer who wrote primarily for a white audience. Throughout, Matthew Wilson analyzes the ways in which Chesnutt crafted narratives for his white readership and focuses on how he attempted to infiltrate and manipulate the feelings and convictions of that audience. Wilson pays close attention to the genres in which Chesnutt was working and also to the social and historical context of the novels. In articulating the development of Chesnutt's career, Wilson shows how Chesnutt's views on race evolved. By the end of his career, he felt that racial differences were not genetically inherent, but social constructions based on our background and upbringing. Finally, the book closely examines Chesnutt's unpublished manuscripts that did not deal with race. Even in these works, in which African Americans are only minor characters, Wilson finds Chesnutt engaged with the conundrum of race and reveals him as one of America's most significant writers on the subject.
Charles W Chesnutt Essays And Speeches
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Author : Joseph R. McElrath, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2001-12-01
Charles W Chesnutt Essays And Speeches written by Joseph R. McElrath, Jr. and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) has been considered by many the major African-American fiction writer before the Harlem Renaissance. This book collects essays he wrote from 1899 through 1931, the majority of which concern white racism, and political and literary addresses he made to both white and black audiences from 1881 through 1931.
Charles W Chesnutt Stories Novels And Essays Loa 131
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Author : Charles Waddell Chesnutt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-01-14
Charles W Chesnutt Stories Novels And Essays Loa 131 written by Charles Waddell Chesnutt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-14 with Fiction categories.
This collection of essential writings from a pioneer of African-American literature features two stories newly restored to print. Eight essays highlight Chesnutt's prescient views on the paradoxes of race relations in America and the definition of race itself.
The Journals Of Charles W Chesnutt
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Author : Charles Waddell Chesnutt
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1993
The Journals Of Charles W Chesnutt written by Charles Waddell Chesnutt and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Born on the eve of the Civil War, Charles W. Chesnutt grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a county seat of four or five thousand people, a once-bustling commercial center slipping into postwar decline. Poor, black, and determined to outstrip his modest beginnings and forlorn surroundings, Chesnutt kept a detailed record of his thoughts, observations, and activities from his sixteenth through his twenty-fourth year (1874-1882). These journals, printed here for the first time, are remarkable for their intimate account of a gifted young black man's dawning sense of himself as a writer in the nineteenth century. Though he achieved literary success in his time, Chesnutt has only recently been rediscovered and his contribution to American literature given its due. The only known private diary from a nineteenth-century African American author, these pages offer a fascinating glimpse into Chesnutt's everyday experience as he struggled to win the goods of education in the world of the post-Civil War South. An extraordinary portrait of the self-made man beset by the urgencies and difficulties of self-improvement in a racially discriminatory society, Chesnutt's journals unfold a richly detailed local history of postwar North Carolina. They also show with great force how the world of the postwar South obstructed--and, unexpectedly, assisted--a black man of driving intellectual ambitions.
The Wife Of His Youth And Other Stories Of The Color Line
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Author : Charles Waddell Chesnutt
language : en
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Release Date : 1967-01-01
The Wife Of His Youth And Other Stories Of The Color Line written by Charles Waddell Chesnutt and has been published by Prabhat Prakashan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967-01-01 with Self-Help categories.
Represents a 19th century American novel by an African American which is important to the study of American folklore, culture, anad literary history.
The Wife Of His Youth And Other Stories Of The Color Line And Selected Essays
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Author : Charles W. Chesnutt
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-11-25
The Wife Of His Youth And Other Stories Of The Color Line And Selected Essays written by Charles W. Chesnutt and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-25 with Medical categories.
'The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays' by Charles W. Chesnutt is a collection of realistic stories that offer a glimpse into the lives of Americans of mixed black and white ancestry in the years after the Civil War. With wit and candor, Chesnutt takes on the complex and often unjust social structure that governed black, white, and mixed-race relations during this period. 'The Wife of His Youth', a standout in the collection, explores the colorism and class prejudice within the black community. Chesnutt's writing is insightful and thought-provoking, offering a nuanced examination of the complexities of identity and belonging. This classic work is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of race relations in America.
The Northern Stories Of Charles W Chesnutt
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Author : Charles Waddell Chesnutt
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2004
The Northern Stories Of Charles W Chesnutt written by Charles Waddell Chesnutt and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Fiction categories.
Charles W. Chestnutt's Northern writings describe the ways in which America was reshaping itself at the turn of the 19th century. This collection of Chestnutt's Northern stories portray life in the North in the period between the Civil War and World War I.
Chesnutt And Realism
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Author : Ryan Simmons
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2006-08-08
Chesnutt And Realism written by Ryan Simmons and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Provides an important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism Although Chesnutt is typically acknowledged as the most prominent African American writer of the realist period, scholars have paid little attention to the central question of this study: what does it mean to call Chesnutt a realist? As a writer whose career was restricted 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 Ryan Simmons demonstrates in extended readings of each of Chesnutt’s novels, including important unpublished works overlooked by previous critics. In addition, Chesnutt and Realism addresses a curiously neglected subject in American literary studies—the 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.
Southern Local Color
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Author : Barbara C. Ewell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-04
Southern Local Color written by Barbara C. Ewell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04 with categories.
Conflict, exoticism, sensuality, eccentricity, and the sheer differences of the American South pervade this lively anthology, the first in fifty years to focus exclusively on the nineteenth-century tradition of southern local color. Its thirty-one stories, spanning the 1870s through the early 1900s, represent some of the best southern fiction to appear during the great flowering of American local color writing. The fifteen authors included here are those most admired by their contemporaries. Modern readers may recognize Kate Chopin, author of The Awakening; Charles Chesnutt, the courageous and gifted African American writer; or Joel Chandler Harris, whose Uncle Remus and Br'er Rabbit tales have remained continually in print. However some authors like suffragist Sarah Barnwell Elliott, are virtually unknown today, while others, like African Americans Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Dunbar-Nelson, are known primarily as poets or diarists. The editors' extensive introduction locates the stories in the context of contemporary and current history and culture, and each selection of tales begins with detailed information on the author. Also included are bibliographies and extensive notes. Showcasing the many styles, topics, and settings of southern local color, the anthology reconnects us to an unjustly neglected literary tradition. As the editors make clear, such tales of the South were essential to post-Civil War America's struggle to address--yet contain--cultural and geographic variety, racial mixtures, and the just clamor of women and African Americans for equality. From George Washington Cable's New Orleans to Thomas Nelson Page's Tidewater Virginia to the Appalachians imagined by Sherwood Bonner, these stories engage nation-shaping themes--war, segregation, immigration, depression, and suffrage--at the personal and community levels. In Southern Local Color we have a unique forum for pondering a timeless American question: how to reconcile our diversities with a unified national identity.