Charles W. Chesnutt: Stories, Novels, and Essays (LOA #131)
The Conjure Woman / The Wife of His Youth & Other Stories of the Color Line / The House Behind the Cedars / The Marrow of Tradition / uncollected stories
Rejecting his era's genteel hypocrisy about miscegenation, lynching, and passing, Charles W. Chesnutt broke new ground in American literature with his innovative explorations of racial identity and use of African-American speech and folklore. Chesnutt exposed the deformed logic of the Jim Crow system-creating, in the process, the modern African-American novel. Here is the best of Chesnutt's fiction and nonfiction in the largest and most comprehensive edition ever published, featuring a newly researched chronology of the writer's life.The Conjure Woman (1899) introduced Chesnutt to the public as a writer of conjure tales, stories that explore…
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- ISBN: 978-1-931082-06-8
- EAN: 9781931082068
- Produktnummer: 9623186
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 939 S.
- Masse: H21.1 cm x B13.7 cm x D3.2 cm 630 g
- Gewicht: 630
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was America's first great black novelist, the author of such groundbreaking works as The Conjure Woman, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line, and The House Behind the Cedars.
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