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Charles W. Chesnutt

The Conjure Woman

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The Conjure Woman (1899) is a collection of stories by African American author, lawyer, and political activist Charles Chesnutt. The Goophered Grapevine, the collection's opening story, was originally published in The Atlantic in 1887, making Chesnutt the first African American to have a story published in the magazine. The Conjure Woman is now considered a masterpiece of African American fiction for its use of folklore and exploration of racist stereotypes of Black Americans, especially those living in the South.In The Goophered Grapevine, an old ex-slave named Julius McAdoo-a coachman hired by a white Northerner named John-warns his employe… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-5132-7417-1
  • EAN: 9781513274171
  • Produktnummer: 36001463
  • Verlag: West Margin Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 128 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB

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Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African American author, lawyer, and political activist. Born in Cleveland to a family of free persons of color from North Carolina, Chesnutt spent his youth in Ohio before returning to the South after the Civil War. As a teenager, he worked as a teacher at a local school for Black students and eventually became principal at a college established in Fayetteville for the purpose of training Black teachers. Chesnutt married Susan Perry-with whom he had four daughters-in 1878 and moved to New York City for a short time before settling in Cleveland, where he studied law and passed the bar exam in 1887. His story The Goophered Grapevine, published the same year, was the first story by an African American to appear in The Atlantic. Back in Ohio, Chesnutt started the court stenography business that would earn him the financial stability to pursue a career as a writer. He wrote several collections of short stories, including The Conjure Woman (1899) and The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line (1899), both of which explore themes of race in America and African American identity as well as employ African American Vernacular English. Chesnutt was also an active member of the NAACP throughout his life, writing for its magazine The Crisis, serving on its General Committee, and working with such figures as W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington.

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