| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 256 pages) : illustrations |
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Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. Chesnutt's Racial Nonfiction: Theorizing Race; 2. The White Novels: Melodrama and Popular Fiction; 3. Mandy Oxendine: The Protocols of Tragic Mulatta Fiction; 4. The House Behind the Cedars: Race Melodrama and the White Audience; 5. The Marrow of Tradition: Living to Tell the Tale; 6. The Colonel's Dream: The Eccentric Design of Charles W. Chesnutt's New South Novel; 7. Paul Marchand, F.M.C.: The Strange Alchemy of Race; 8. The Quarry: "No White Person of Sound Mind Would Ever Claim to Be a Negro"; Postscript; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H |
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IJ; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
| Summary |
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 de-romanticizing 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 th |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-250) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932 -- Characters -- Whites
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| SUBJECT |
Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932 fast |
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Human skin color in literature.
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White people in literature.
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White in literature.
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Race in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Human skin color in literature
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Race in literature
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White in literature
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White people in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1423732138 |
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9781423732136 |
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9781604730562 |
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1604730560 |
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