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Charles W. Chesnutt and the fictions of race

"Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was the first African American writer of fiction to win the attention and approval of America's literary establishment. Looking anew at Chesnutt's public and private writings, his fiction and nonfiction, and his well-known and recently rediscovered works, Dean McWilliams explores Chesnutt's distinctive contribution to American culture: how his stories and novels challenge our dominant cultural narratives - particularly their underlying assumptions about race.".

"The published canon of Chesnutt's work has doubled in the last decade: three novels completed but unpublished in Chesnutt's life have appeared, as have scholarly editions of Chesnutt's journals, his letters, and his essays. This book is the first to offer chapter-length analyses of each of Chesnutt's six novels. It also devotes three chapters to his short fiction. Previous critics have read Chesnutt's nonfiction as biographical background for his fiction.

McWilliams is the first to analyze these nonfiction texts as complex verbal artifacts embodying many of the same tensions and ambiguities found in Chesnutt's stories and novels. The book includes separate chapters on Chesnutt's journal and on his important essay "The Future American." Moreover, Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of Race approaches Chesnutt's writings from the perspective of recent literary theory.

To a greater extent than any previous study of Chesnutt, it explores the way his texts interrogate and deconstruct the language and the intellectual constructs we use to organize reality."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
261

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Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of Race
2010, University of Georgia Press
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Cover of: Charles W. Chesnutt and the fictions of race
Charles W. Chesnutt and the fictions of race
2002, University of Georgia Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-254) and index.

Published in
Athens

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.4
Library of Congress
PS1292.C6 Z77 2002, PS1292.C6Z77 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 261 p. ;
Number of pages
261

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3552433M
Internet Archive
charleswchesnutt0000mcwi
ISBN 10
0820324353
LCCN
2002002787
OCLC/WorldCat
49225349
Goodreads
3065066

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