The absent man
the narrative craft of Charles W. Chesnutt
by Duncan, Charles
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.
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African Americans in literature, African American aesthetics, Technique, Narration (Rhetoric), History, American, LITERARY CRITICISM, General, Chesnutt, charles waddell, 1858-1932, Noirs américains dans la littérature, Esthétique noire américaine, Narration, English, Languages & Literatures, American LiteratureTimes
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The absent man: the narrative craft of Charles W. Chesnutt
1998, Ohio University Press
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0821412396 9780821412398
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-205) and index.
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