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Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of Race (Hardcover)
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Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of Race (Hardcover)
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The first extended exploration of the construction of racial
identity in Chesnutt's writings; 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 wellknown 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decade: three novels completed but unpublished in Chesnutt's life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. 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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