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Charles Chesnutt Reappraised: Essays on the First Major African American Fiction Writer

Charles Chesnutt Reappraised: Essays on the First Major African American Fiction Writer


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One of the best known and most widely read of early African American writers, Charles W. Chesnutt published more than fifty short stories, six novels, two plays, a biography of Frederick Douglass, and countless essays, poems, letters, journals, and speeches. Though he had light skin and was of mixed race, Chesnutt self-identified as a black man, and his writing was often boldly political, openly addressing problems of racial identity and injustice in the late 19th century. This collection of critical essays reevaluates the Chesnutt legacy, introducing new scholarship reflective of the many facets of his fiction, especially his sophisticated narrative strategies.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Introduction MARIA ORBAN      1. Charles W. Chesnutt, Jack Thorne and the African American Literary Response to the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot LINDA BELAU AND ED CAMERON      2. “The fruit of my own imagination”: Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition in the Age of Realism WILLIE J. HARRELL, JR.      3. “I shall leave the realm of fiction”: Conjure, Genre, and Passing in the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt CHRISTOPHER BUNDRICK      4. “Those folks downstairs believe in ghosts”: The Eradication of Folklore in the Novels of Charles W. Chesnutt WILEY CASH      5. The Fiction of Race: Folklore to Classical Literature MARIA ORBAN      6. Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars: An Outlaw(ed) Reading COLEMAN C. MYRON      7. Reading the Transgressive Body: Phenomenology in the Stories of Charles W. Chesnutt KIM KIRKPATRICK      8. “Your people will never rise in the world”: Chesnutt’s Message to a Black Readership TYRIE J. SMITH      9. Vanished Past and Vanishing Point: Charles W. Chesnutt’s Short Stories and the Problem of American Historical Memory ZOE TRODD      10. All Green with Epic Potential: Chesnutt Goes to the Marrow of Tradition to Re-Construct America’s Epic Body GREGORY E. RUTLEDGE      11. “The Wife of His Youth”: A Trickster Tale CYNTHIA WACHTELL      12. With Myriad Subtleties: Recognizing an Africanist Presence in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman TIEL LUNDY      13. Passing for What? The Marrow of Tradition’s Minstrel Critique of the Unlawfulness of JULIE IROMUANYA      14. Geographies of Freedom: Race, Mobility, and Uplift in Charles W. Chesnutt’s Northern Writing MICHELLE TAYLOR      15. Motherhood, Martyrdom and Cultural Dichotomy in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars B. OMEGA MOORE      Epilogue: The Gifts of Ambiguity MICHELLE TAYLOR      About the Contributors      Index     

About the Author :
David Garrett Izzo is an emeritus professor of English who has published 16 books and 60 essays of literary scholarship, as well as three novels and two plays. He lives in Haw River, North Carolina. Maria Orban is an assistant professor of English at Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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“recommended”—Choice.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780786441112
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 246
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 331 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0786441119
  • Publisher Date: 14 Apr 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 246
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Essays on the First Major African American Fiction Writer
  • Width: 152 mm


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