The stories in "The Conjure Woman" were Charles W. Chesnutt's first great literary success, and since their initial publication in 1899 they have come to be seen as some of the most remarkable works of African American literature from the Emancipation through the Harlem Renaissance. Lesser known, though, is that the "The Conjure Woman", as first ...
A story about the struggles of black and white half-sisters, written by the author of "The Conjure Woman", "The Wife of His Youth", "The House Behind the Cedars" and "The Colonel's Daughter".
Ten wonderful stories by pioneer of African-American fiction: "The Goophered Grapevine," "Po' Sandy," "Sis' Becky's Pickaninny," "The Wife of His Youth," "Dave's Neckliss," "The Passing of Grandison," more. Witty, charming, insightful.
Evoking the atmosphere of early-nineteenth-century New Orleans and the deadly aftermath of the San Domingo slave revolution, this historical novel begins as its protagonist puzzles over the seemingly prophetic dream of an aged black praline seller in the famous Place d'Armes. Paul Marchand, a free man of color living in New Orleans in the 1820s, ...
Unlike the popular "Uncle Remus" stories of Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Chesnutt's tales probe psychological depths in black people unheard of before in Southern regional writing. They also expose the anguish of mixed-race men and women and the consequences of racial hatred, mob violence, and moral compromise. This important collection ...
From the acclaimed author of "The House Behind the Cedars" and "The Marrow of Tradition" comes the "The Colonel's Dream," a novel first published in 1905 by Doubleday about a progressive, white Northern businessman who returns to his Southern roots and attempts to improve the economic fortunes of his community.
One of the great neglected authors of American fiction, Chesnutt is represented here by all the stories he published in books during his lifetime as well as two previously uncollected stories. Like his novels, these stories expose and probe the contradictions, the tensions, and the day-to-day struggles of living in the racially strained South of ...
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.
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.
This teaching edition of Charles W. Chesnutt's 1901 novel about racial conflict in a Southern US town features an extensive selection of materials that place the work in its historical context. Organized thematically, these materials explore: caste, gender and race after Reconstruction; postbellum laws and lynching; the 1898 Wilmington riot upon ...
This unique collection portrays the early twentieth century short story writer, biographer, novelist, essayist, stenographer, and lawyer, Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Readers are shown how Chesnutt was, perhaps, the best African American literary signifier of his day. The volume opens with generous selections from his journals and published and ...
Collected in this volume are the 1889-1905 letters of one of the first African-American literary artists to cross the "color line" into the de facto segregated publishing industry of the turn of the century. Selected for inclusion are those letters chronicling the rise of Chesnutt, an attorney and businessman in Cleveland, Ohio, who achieved ...
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.
Was Donald Glover really what he seemed--a handsome, dedicated, and clever African-American star of the Harlem Renaissance, whose looks made him the "quarry" of a variety of women? Or could the secrets of his birth change his destiny entirely? Focusing on the culture of Harlem in the 1920s, Charles Chesnutt's final novel dramatizes the political ...
With the assistance of Bo, her classmate at Sussex Academy, twelve-year-old Shirley proves her skill at solving crimes in the same manner as her ancestor, the legendary Sherlock Holmes.
Over the past decade, increasing attention has been paid to the life and work of Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), considered by many the major African-American fiction writer before the Harlem Renaissance by virtue of the three novels and two collections of short stories he published between 1899 and 1905. Less familiar are the essays he wrote for ...
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, ...
African-American literature at the turn of the century is a crucial component of our cultural heritage, and here, collected in one volume, are three of the most significant of these works. Includes Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted by Frances E. W. Harper, The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt, and Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Sport of the ...
In a novel rejected by a major publisher in the 19th century as too shocking for its time, writer Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) challenges the notion that race, class, education, and gender must define one's "rightful" place in society. Both a romance and a mystery, MANDY OXENDINE tells the compelling story of two fair-skinned, racially mixed ...
Credited with almost single-handedly pioneering a genuine African-American literary tradition in the short story, Chesnutt has influenced writers such as James Weldon Johnson and Charles Johnson. This collections contains all the stories in Chesnutt's two published volumes, The Conjure Woman and The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color ...
This book collects the letters written between 1906 and 1932 by novelist and civil rights activist Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932). Between 1885 and 1905, this pioneer in the African-American literary tradition published three novels, two books of short stories, a biography of Frederick Douglass, and many short stories and essays in prestigious ...
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