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050 00 $aPS1292.C6$bZ77 2002
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100 1 $aMcWilliams, Dean.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78044147
245 10 $aCharles W. Chesnutt and the fictions of race /$cDean McWilliams.
260 $aAthens :$bUniversity of Georgia Press,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $axii, 261 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [247]-254) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tChesnutt's Language / Language's Chesnutt --$g2.$tChesnutt in His Journals: "Nigger" under Erasure --$g3.$t"The Future American" and "Chas. Chesnutt" --$g4.$tBlack Vernacular in Chesnutt's Short Fiction: "A New School of Literature" --$g5.$tThe Julius and John Stories: "The Luscious Scuppernong" --$g6.$tRace in Chesnutt's Short Fiction: The "Line" and the "Web" --$g7.$tMandy Oxendine: "Is You a Rale Black Man?" --$g8.$tThe House behind the Cedars: "Creatures of Our Creation" --$g9.$tThe Marrow of Tradition: "The Very Breath of His Nostrils" --$g10.$tThe Colonel's Dream: "Sho Would 'a' Be'n a 'Ristocrat" --$g11.$tPaul Marchand, F.M.C.: "F.M.C." and "C.W.C." --$g12.$tThe Quarry: "And Not the Hawk"
520 1 $a"Charles W. 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 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.".
520 8 $a"The published canon of Chesnutt's work has doubled in the last decade: three novels completed but unpublished in Chesnutt's life have appeared, as have scholarly editions of Chesnutt's journals, his letters, and his essays.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.
520 8 $aMcWilliams 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.
520 8 $aTo 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."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aChesnutt, Charles W.$q(Charles Waddell),$d1858-1932$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aChesnutt, Charles W.$q(Charles Waddell),$d1858-1932.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79138741
650 0 $aRace.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85110232
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001973
650 0 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004952
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85002009
650 0 $aGroup identity in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94007593
650 0 $aRace in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008443
852 00 $bglx$hPS1292.C6$iZ77 2002