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Charles Chesnutt reappraised : essays on the first major African American fiction writer
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Charles Chesnutt reappraised : essays on the first major African American fiction writer

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Charles W. Chesnutt, Jack Thorne and the African American literary response to the 1898 Wilmington race riot / Linda Belau and Ed Cameron
"The fruit of my own imagination": Charles W. Chesnutt's The marrow of tradition in the age of realism / Willie J. Harrell, Jr.
"I shall leave the realm of fiction": conjure, genre, and passing in the fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt / Christopher Bundrick
"Those folks downstairs believe in ghosts": the eradication of folklore in the novels of Charles W. Chesnutt / Wiley Cash
The fiction of race: folklore to classical literature / Maria Orban
Charles W. Chesnutt's The house behind the cedars: an outlaw(ed) reading / Coleman C. Myron
Reading the transgressive body: phenomenology in the stories of Charles W. Chesnutt / Kim Kirkpatrick
"Your people will never rise in the world": Chesnutt's message to a black readership / Tyrie J. Smith
Vanished past and vanishing point: Charles W. Chesnutt's short stories and the problem of American historical memory / Zoe Trodd
All green with epic potential: Chesnutt goes to the marrow of tradition to re-construct America's epic body / Gregory E. Rutledge
"The wife of his youth": a trickster tale
Cynthia Wachtell
With myriad subtleties: recognizing an Africanist presence in Charles W. Chesnutt's The conjure woman / Tiel Lundy
Passing for what?: the marrow of tradition's minstrel critique of the unlawfulness of law / Julie Iromuanya
Geographies of freedom: race, mobility, and uplift in Charles W. Chesnutt's Northern writing / Michelle Taylor
Motherhood, martyrdom and cultural dichotomy in Charles W. Chesnutt's The house behind the cedars / B. Omega Moore
Epilogue: the gifts of ambiguity / Michelle Taylor.

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Charles Chesnutt reappraised : essays on the first major African American fiction writer. ISBN 9780786441112. Published by McFarland & Co. in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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