Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt (häftad)
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Häftad (Trade paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
200
Utgivningsdatum
1993-10-19
Förlag
Duke University Press
Dimensioner
235 x 153 x 16 mm
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359 g
ISBN
9780822314240

Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt

av Charles W Chesnutt, Charles W Chesnutt, Richard H Brodhead
Häftad,  Engelska, 1993-10-19
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Born on the eve of the Civil War, Charles W. Chesnutt grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a county seat of four or five thousand people, a once-bustling commercial center slipping into postwar decline. Poor, black, and determined to outstrip his modest beginnings and forlorn surroundings, Chesnutt kept a detailed record of his thoughts, observations, and activities from his sixteenth through his twenty-fourth year (1874-1882). These journals, printed here for the first time, are remarkable for their intimate account of a gifted young black man's dawning sense of himself as a writer in the nineteenth century. Though he achieved literary success in his time, Chesnutt has only recently been rediscovered and his contribution to American literature given its due. The only known private diary from a nineteenth-century African American author, these pages offer a fascinating glimpse into Chesnutt's everyday experience as he struggled to win the goods of education in the world of the post-Civil War South. An extraordinary portrait of the self-made man beset by the urgencies and difficulties of self-improvement in a racially discriminatory society, Chesnutt's journals unfold a richly detailed local history of postwar North Carolina. They also show with great force how the world of the postwar South obstructed--and, unexpectedly, assisted--a black man of driving intellectual ambitions.
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Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) is the author of The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories (1899), The House Behind the Cedars (1900), The Marrow of Tradition (1901), and Colonel's Dream (1905). The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales, a collection of Charles W. Chesnutt's short stories, is also published by Duke University Press. Richard H. Brodhead, Professor of English at Yale University, is the author of numerous books about nineteenth-century American literature.

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