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- catalog abstract "Publisher description: Charles W. Chesnutt broke new ground in American literature with searching explorations of the meaning of race and innovative use of African American speech and folklore. Rejecting genteel Victorian hypocrisy about miscegenation, lynching, and "passing," Chesnutt exposed the deformed logic of Jim Crow with novels and stories of formal clarity-creating, in the process, the modern African American novel. The Conjure Woman (1899) introduced Chesnutt to the public as a writer of "conjure" tales, stories that explore black folklore and supernaturalism. That same year, he published The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line, stories set in Chesnutt's native North Carolina that dramatize the legacies of slavery and Reconstruction at the turn of the century. His first novel, The House Behind the Cedars (1900) tells, as no previous novel ever had, of racial passing. The Marrow of Tradition (1901), Chesnutt's masterpiece, is a powerful and bitter novel about the harsh reassertion of white dominance in a southern town at the end of the Reconstruction era, based largely on the Wilmington race riot. Nine uncollected short stories, including conjure tales omitted from The Conjure Woman, round out a selection of the author's fiction. Eight essays highlight Chesnutt's prescient views on the paradoxes of race relations in America and the definition of race itself.".
- catalog alternative "Stories, novels, and essays".
- catalog alternative "Works. Selections. 2001".
- catalog contributor b12372221.
- catalog contributor b12372222.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 924-939).".
- catalog description "Publisher description: Charles W. Chesnutt broke new ground in American literature with searching explorations of the meaning of race and innovative use of African American speech and folklore. Rejecting genteel Victorian hypocrisy about miscegenation, lynching, and "passing," Chesnutt exposed the deformed logic of Jim Crow with novels and stories of formal clarity-creating, in the process, the modern African American novel. The Conjure Woman (1899) introduced Chesnutt to the public as a writer of "conjure" tales, stories that explore black folklore and supernaturalism. That same year, he published The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line, stories set in Chesnutt's native North Carolina that dramatize the legacies of slavery and Reconstruction at the turn of the century. His first novel, The House Behind the Cedars (1900) tells, as no previous novel ever had, of racial passing. The Marrow of Tradition (1901), Chesnutt's masterpiece, is a powerful and bitter novel about the harsh reassertion of white dominance in a southern town at the end of the Reconstruction era, based largely on the Wilmington race riot. Nine uncollected short stories, including conjure tales omitted from The Conjure Woman, round out a selection of the author's fiction. Eight essays highlight Chesnutt's prescient views on the paradoxes of race relations in America and the definition of race itself.".
- catalog description "The conjure woman -- The wife of his youth and other stories of the color line -- The house behind the cedars -- The marrow of tradition -- Uncollected stories -- Selected essays.".
- catalog extent "x, 939 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Stories, novels & essays.".
- catalog identifier "1931082065 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Stories, novels & essays.".
- catalog isPartOf "Library of America ; 131".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Library of America ; Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam,".
- catalog relation "Stories, novels & essays.".
- catalog subject "813/.4 21".
- catalog subject "African Americans Fiction.".
- catalog subject "African Americans.".
- catalog subject "PS1292.C6 A6 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "The conjure woman -- The wife of his youth and other stories of the color line -- The house behind the cedars -- The marrow of tradition -- Uncollected stories -- Selected essays.".
- catalog title "Stories, novels, & essays / Charles W. Chesnutt.".
- catalog title "Stories, novels, and essays".
- catalog title "Works. Selections. 2001".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".