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Dean McWilliams 
Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of Race 

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Charles 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 Mc Williams 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The published canon of Chesnutt’s work has doubled in the last decade: three novels completed but unpublished in Chesnutt’s life have appeared, as have scholarly editions of Chesnutt’s journals, his letters, and his essays.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. Mc Williams 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.
The full effect of this new study is to show us how much more of a twentieth-century writer Chesnutt is than has been previously acknowledged. This accomplishment can only hasten his reemergence as one of our most important observers of race in American culture.

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DEAN Mc WILLIAMS is J. Richard Hamilton/Baker and Hostetler Professor of Humanities and professor of English at Ohio University. He is the editor of scholarly editions of Chesnutt’s The Quarry and Paul Marchand, F.M.C.
Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 280 ● ISBN 9780820327242 ● Dateigröße 14.8 MB ● Verlag University of Georgia Press ● Ort Athens ● Land US ● Erscheinungsjahr 2010 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 5513342 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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