Charles W. Chesnutt Stories, Novels, and Essays (LOA #131)

Name: Charles W. Chesnutt Stories, Novels, and Essays (LOA #131)
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ISBN: 9781931082068

ISBN-10: 1931082065

ISBN-13: 9781931082068

Edition: 2002

Authors: Charles W. Chesnutt, Charles W. Chesnutt, Charles Chesnutt

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Rejecting his era's genteel hypocrisy about miscegenation, lynching, and "passing," Charles W. Chesnutt broke new ground in American literature with his innovative explorations of racial identity and use of African-American speech and folklore. Chesnutt exposed the deformed logic of the Jim Crow system-creating, in the process, the modern African-American novel. Here is the best of Chesnutt's fiction and nonfiction in the largest and most comprehensive edition ever published, featuring a newly researched chronology of the writer's life. The Conjure Woman (1899) introduced Chesnutt to the public as a writer of "conjure" tales, stories that explore black folklore and supernaturalism. That…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Library of America, The
Publication date: 1/14/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 939
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.30" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.760



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