Charles W. Chesnutt emerged on the literary scene in 1899 and was soon hailed as a pioneer of the color line. Indeed he never stopped exploring this frontier in his fiction, knowing all the while that just one drop of black blood could keep a man from crossing this line. As a mulatto of very light complexion himself, he could not elude the question of racial identity: did he consider himself as a Negro, a mulatto, or rather, as just an American writer? This article purports to show how Chesnutt evaded all definite classification, and was finally, perhaps conveniently, labelled Negro writer in spite of his true identity. After a brief introduction to Chesnutt and his work, this paper focuses on the author’s own racial definition of himself, ...
“Every book is a gamble at bes” : The publication of Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition (190...
Charles Chesnutt began his career with an ideology that race should not be a category in which to ju...
This article discusses two short stories about the Old South, Thomas Nelson Page`s Marse Chan and Ch...
Charles W. Chesnutt emerged on the literary scene in 1899 and was soon hailed as a pioneer of the co...
This dissertation analyzes the fiction of Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932), the first black fict...
Charles Waddell Chesnutt was an African American writer born on June 20, 1858, in Cleveland, Ohio to...
Growing up in Cleveland after the Civil War and during the brutal rollback of Reconstruction and the...
Even after the dismantling of the institution of slavery, the majority on nineteenth-century Afro-Am...
ABSTRACT Charles W. Chesnutt captures the essence of the Post Civil War period and gives examples of...
This thesis argues that Charles W. Chesnutt's writings challenged the central assumptions of his Ame...
115 leavesSummary of Author: Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) is a black short story author and novel...
A pioneer of African American literature and the first to reach a national audience with his writing...
Charles Chesnutt is perhaps best known for his short stories; he also, over the course of his relati...
In this article, I read Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition (1901) against the background of ...
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1997) once wrote: “Speaking of dialect, it is almost a despairing task to ...
“Every book is a gamble at bes” : The publication of Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition (190...
Charles Chesnutt began his career with an ideology that race should not be a category in which to ju...
This article discusses two short stories about the Old South, Thomas Nelson Page`s Marse Chan and Ch...
Charles W. Chesnutt emerged on the literary scene in 1899 and was soon hailed as a pioneer of the co...
This dissertation analyzes the fiction of Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932), the first black fict...
Charles Waddell Chesnutt was an African American writer born on June 20, 1858, in Cleveland, Ohio to...
Growing up in Cleveland after the Civil War and during the brutal rollback of Reconstruction and the...
Even after the dismantling of the institution of slavery, the majority on nineteenth-century Afro-Am...
ABSTRACT Charles W. Chesnutt captures the essence of the Post Civil War period and gives examples of...
This thesis argues that Charles W. Chesnutt's writings challenged the central assumptions of his Ame...
115 leavesSummary of Author: Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) is a black short story author and novel...
A pioneer of African American literature and the first to reach a national audience with his writing...
Charles Chesnutt is perhaps best known for his short stories; he also, over the course of his relati...
In this article, I read Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition (1901) against the background of ...
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1997) once wrote: “Speaking of dialect, it is almost a despairing task to ...
“Every book is a gamble at bes” : The publication of Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition (190...
Charles Chesnutt began his career with an ideology that race should not be a category in which to ju...
This article discusses two short stories about the Old South, Thomas Nelson Page`s Marse Chan and Ch...