Add to ORKGMy research project presents an edited version, with an introduction, of the earliest surviving version of “Rena Walden,” the short story that ultimately became the novel The House Behind the Cedars. The novel is a passing story in which a light-skinned, mixed race girl enters white society to live life as a white woman. Interestingly, however, the short story on which the novel was based began as a fiction with no white characters whatsoever. As the manuscript of this story is often difficult to read because of hard-to-decipher handwritten revisions, I had to create my own editorial policy to support my decisions. I have conducted research on the publication process of The House Behind the Cedars and Chesnutt\u27s life in order to make inf...
In his “conjure stories,” which were published in various periodicals in the late nineteenth century...
Although often maligned by literary scholars, Constance Cary Harrison, nineteenth-century novelist, ...
The purpose of this study is to explore the written representation of African-American spoken-voice ...
My research project presents an edited version, with an introduction, of the earliest surviving vers...
115 leavesSummary of Author: Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) is a black short story author and novel...
This dissertation analyzes the fiction of Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932), the first black fict...
International audienceIn 1899 Houghton Mifflin published African-American writer Charles Waddell Che...
A pioneer of African American literature and the first to reach a national audience with his writing...
The history of Fayetteville State University and its Charles W. Chesnutt Library are intimately c...
Charles Chesnutt began his career with an ideology that race should not be a category in which to ju...
Amidst a surge of plantation fiction writing during the era of American Realism, Charles Chesnutt wa...
Growing up in Cleveland after the Civil War and during the brutal rollback of Reconstruction and the...
When studying American history, it is easy to dismiss racism as a thing of the past, something that ...
By the 1920s, although slavery had been abolished in America decades before, many social, economic a...
Typed manuscript of “Children of Lead,” published in 1939 as South of Joplin: Story of a Tri-State D...
In his “conjure stories,” which were published in various periodicals in the late nineteenth century...
Although often maligned by literary scholars, Constance Cary Harrison, nineteenth-century novelist, ...
The purpose of this study is to explore the written representation of African-American spoken-voice ...
My research project presents an edited version, with an introduction, of the earliest surviving vers...
115 leavesSummary of Author: Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) is a black short story author and novel...
This dissertation analyzes the fiction of Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932), the first black fict...
International audienceIn 1899 Houghton Mifflin published African-American writer Charles Waddell Che...
A pioneer of African American literature and the first to reach a national audience with his writing...
The history of Fayetteville State University and its Charles W. Chesnutt Library are intimately c...
Charles Chesnutt began his career with an ideology that race should not be a category in which to ju...
Amidst a surge of plantation fiction writing during the era of American Realism, Charles Chesnutt wa...
Growing up in Cleveland after the Civil War and during the brutal rollback of Reconstruction and the...
When studying American history, it is easy to dismiss racism as a thing of the past, something that ...
By the 1920s, although slavery had been abolished in America decades before, many social, economic a...
Typed manuscript of “Children of Lead,” published in 1939 as South of Joplin: Story of a Tri-State D...
In his “conjure stories,” which were published in various periodicals in the late nineteenth century...
Although often maligned by literary scholars, Constance Cary Harrison, nineteenth-century novelist, ...
The purpose of this study is to explore the written representation of African-American spoken-voice ...