This teaching edition of Charles W. Chesnutt’s 1901 novel about racial conflict in a Southern 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 which the narrative is based; and the fin de siecle culture of segregation. The thematic sections are rich with documents such as letters, photographs, editorials, speeches, legal decisions, journalism, and essays from leading periodicals of the era. The writers represented include such well-known figures as W. E. B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as fascinating, half-forgotten characters like the black newspaper editor Alexander Manly and the white supremacist Thomas Dixon. The editors’ introductions and selection headnotes provide additional background for understanding the mythology of race and Chesnutt’s penetrating examination of its mechanisms and consequences.
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NANCY BENTLEY, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania. SANDRA GUNNING, Department of English, University of Michigan.
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Though only a twenty-three-year-old African American school principal in Fayetteville, North Carolina, when he made these journal entries, Charles Waddell Chesnutt was indeed destined to claim for himself the title of "author." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
plantation fiction, birth reform, gwine ter, colored doctor, fer ter, ter git, negro domination Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, African Americans, North Carolina, Mammy Jane, New York, The Marrow of Tradition, Major Carteret, Tom Delamere, Mars Marrabo, Aunt Polly, Morning Chronicle, Supreme Court, General Belmont, Mistuh Tom, New Orleans, Old South, Mars Sam, Clarendon Club, Miss Pemberton, Sandy Campbell, South Carolina, American Negro, Atlantic Monthly, Frederick Douglass, Howard University New!
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Though only a twenty-three-year-old African American school principal in Fayetteville, North Carolina, when he made these journal entries, Charles Waddell Chesnutt was indeed destined to claim for himself the title of "author." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
plantation fiction, birth reform, gwine ter, colored doctor, fer ter, ter git, negro domination Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, African Americans, North Carolina, Mammy Jane, New York, The Marrow of Tradition, Major Carteret, Tom Delamere, Mars Marrabo, Aunt Polly, Morning Chronicle, Supreme Court, General Belmont, Mistuh Tom, New Orleans, Old South, Mars Sam, Clarendon Club, Miss Pemberton, Sandy Campbell, South Carolina, American Negro, Atlantic Monthly, Frederick Douglass, Howard University New!
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- In Ole Virginia (volume 1 Of The Novel, Stories, Sketches, And Poems Of Thomas Nelson Page) (BCL1-PS American Literature) by Thomas Nelson Page on page 19, page 32, and Back Matter
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