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<p>Rejecting his era's genteel hypocrisy about miscegenation, lynching, and "passing," <b>Charles W. Chesnutt</b> 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.</p> <p><b>The Conjure Woman</b> (1899) introduced Chesnutt to the public as a writer of "conjure" tales, stories that explore black folklore and supernaturalism. That same year, he published <b>The Wife of His Youth</b>, and <b>Other Stories of the Color Line</b>, 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, <b>The House Behind the Cedars</b> (1900), is a study of racial passing. <b>The Marrow of Tradition</b> (1901), Chesnutt's masterpiece, is a powerful and bitter novel about the harsh reassertion of white dominance in a southern tow

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Author

Charles W Chesnutt; Werner Sollors

Publisher

Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781931082068

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.5 / 5 (31 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14