| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 214 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The white and the black ... and the limits of authorship -- "Through my leafy veil": Chestnutt's narrative witnesses -- Negotiating belief and voicing difference -- Speaking for (and against) each other: the inside narratives -- Shortening his weapons: the more detached voice of realism -- Conclusion: the blackballing of Charles W. Chestnutt |
| Summary |
In The Absent Man, Charles Duncan attributes Chesnutt's uneasy position to a remarkable narrative subtlety that shields Chesnutt's personal views from the reader. "Her Virginia Mammy," for example, might initially be read as a sentimental love story or as an endorsement of miscegenation, but it is also an incisive satire of white readers and their complacent views on race identity. In The Conjure Woman Chesnutt divides the narrative duties between a white businessman and an ex-slave to generate a vibrant and convincing cultural dialogue. The first book-length study to explore the impact of Charles Chesnutt's sophisticated, innovative narrative, The Absent Man will provoke renewed discussion and appreciation of his work as a source of today's potent tradition of African-American fiction |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-205) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932 -- Technique
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| SUBJECT |
Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932 fast |
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Chesnutt, Charles Waddell. swd |
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African Americans in literature.
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African American aesthetics.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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African American aesthetics
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African Americans in literature
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Technique
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
98022063 |
| ISBN |
0896804054 |
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9780896804050 |
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