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Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America; Conscience and Purpose: Fiction and Social Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 181–183.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Elsa Nettels Duke University Press 2007 Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America . By T. Gregory Garvey. Atlanta: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2006. xii, 263 pp. $ 39.95. Conscience and Purpose: Fiction and Social Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather...
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Into the Morass: Chesnutt, Antinormativity, and the Queer Politics of Early Jim Crow Literature
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 495–522.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Timothy Marshall Griffiths Abstract In this essay I discuss how Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House behind the Cedars —through the tropology of spatialization, illustrations of expansive human intimacy, and indictments of the triangulation of antinormatively gendered and sexed bodies as political...
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Inventing Queer: Portals, Hauntings, and Other Fantastic Tricks in the Collected Folklore of Joel Chandler Harris and Charles Chesnutt
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Don James McLaughlin Abstract Through an analysis of Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country (1894) by Joel Chandler Harris and The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales (1899) by Charles Chesnutt, this essay attempts to account for a late nineteenth-century genre termed the queer fantastic...
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The Absent Man: The Narrative Quest of Charles W. Chesnutt
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 190–191.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Dolan Hubbard By Charles Duncan. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 1998. xx, 214 pp. $36.95. 2003 190 American Literature
The Absent Man: The Narrative Quest of Charles W. Chesnutt. By Charles Duncan...
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Charles Chesnutt and the Epistemology of Racial Violence
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 311–337.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Bryan Wagner Duke University Press 2001 Bryan Charles Chesnutt and the Epistemology
Wagner of Racial Violence
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“Time Enough, but None to Spare”: The Indispensable Temporalities of Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 March 2019
... politics of multiple temporalities. I discuss several books from the period before focusing on Charles W. Chesnutt’s 1901 novel The Marrow of Tradition , in which white supremacists weaponize nonlinear temporalities while punctual black characters express faith in linear progressive historical time...
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“That Friendship of the Whites”: Patronage, Philanthropy, and Charles Chesnutt's The Colonel's Dream
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 775–801.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Francesca Sawaya This essay focuses on the writings of Charles Chesnutt in order to rethink the expressivist and democratizing assumptions about the market that literary historians in the United States have borrowed from classical economics. In particular, it analyzes the discourse of friendship...
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The Cakewalk of Capital in Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 61–87.
Published: 01 March 2012
...John Mac Kilgore Engaging in a long-standing debate about how to understand post-Reconstruction era “spectacle lynching,” Kilgore's essay revisits Charles Chesnutt's 1901 novel The Marrow of Tradition in light of current theories of racial violence read through the logics of corporate capitalism...
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Ruins Amidst Ruins: Black Classicism and the Empire of Slavery
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 361–389.
Published: 01 June 2014
..., and situating key literary figures—most prominently Charles Chesnutt—within this tradition. Chesnutt and others (Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Toni Morrison among them) adapt and revise multiple mythic traditions—ancient and modern, “African” and “American,” “black” and “white”—to counter an exceptionalist...
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Faulkner's Questioning Narratives: Fiction of His Major Phase, 1929-42;Subversive Voices: Eroticizing the Other in William Faulkner and Toni Morrison
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2003
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lected Stories, 274). Lest one get too carried away with postmodernist sound-
ings of this story, Chesnutt anchors it in the social construction of race and
difference. African Americans were written into the margin of such august...
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Realism’s Reputations, Financialized Whiteness
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American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 381–410.
Published: 01 September 2024
...; the graveyard is lush, balancing order and disorder (Chesnutt 2014 : 101). Here is an afterlife of the picturesque. In a “less neglected” “spacious lot,” Peter is “pruning a tangled rose tree.” He appears as though embedded in his surroundings (“they saw among the tombs . . . ”), as though one among...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 231–244.
Published: 01 June 2001
... of racial visibility’’ in a reading of
Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition. Examining the prevalent
trope of ‘‘Negro Domination’’ in the rhetoric surrounding the events on
which the novel is based, the 1898 Wilmington...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 594–598.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., the development of railroads, and questions of inheritance as key problems that shaped literary plots. The chapter on railroads enlarges the usual scope of the discussion about Reconstruction. Having concluded the chapter on paternalism with Chesnutt’s suggestion that “freedmen . . . were held to a standard...
View articletitled, The Civil War Dead and American Modernity Battle Lines: Poetry and Mass Media in the U.S. Civil War I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White
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The Politics of Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Dividing Lines: Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 833–835.
Published: 01 December 2014
... Reviews 835
If Murison depicts antebellum US literature as permeated by notions of
nervousness, Williams delineates the great pains Frances E. W. Harper, Sut-
ton Griggs, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Pauline Hopkins, and Charles Chesnutt
took to describe class divisions within black communities...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 207–209.
Published: 01 March 2003
.... In the
epilogue of his latest book, The Color of Sex, Mason Stokes reminds us that the
roots of whiteness studies can be traced to nineteenth- and early twentieth-
century African American writers like Charles Chesnutt and W. E. B. DuBois...
View articletitled, White Women Writing White: H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Whiteness; The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy; White Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel
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Brief Mention
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American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 437–444.
Published: 01 June 2007
... into the influences of expa‑
triate American women in turn-of-the-century Britain.
Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels. By Ryan Simmons. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of
Alabama Press. 2006. viii, 198 pp. $39.95.
Through readings of each of Chesnutt’s novels, including unpublished works,
Simmons asks how...
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Index to Volume 83
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 893–914.
Published: 01 December 2011
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tics of Catastrophe, 223–25.
Ryan, Katy. “State Killing, the Stage of Innocence, and The Exonerated,” 121–51.
Ryan, Susan. “Stowe, Byron, and the Art of Scandal,” 59–91.
Sawaya, Francesca. “‘That Friendship of the Whites’: Patronage, Philan-
thropy, and Charles Chesnutt’s The Colonel’s Dream...
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Brief Mention
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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 419–428.
Published: 01 June 2006
... on Murfree’s interest in archeology and the use
of dialect.
420 American Literature
A Business Career. By Charles W. Chesnutt. Ed. Matthew Wilson and Marjan A. van
Schaik. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2005. xviii, 218 pp. $40.00.
Among six unpublished manuscripts, Chesnutt left behind two...
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The Difficult Art of Giving: Patronage, Philanthropy, and the American Literary Market Captains of Charity: The Writing and Wages of Postrevolutionary Atlantic Benevolence
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 653–655.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Howells, Charles W. Chesnutt, and Theodore Dreiser, benefited from the friendship and patronage of wealthy benefactors, or their institutions, even as they employed their fiction to interrogate how such relationships could compromise artistic independence. Such connections could be personal...
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Tricksters and Cosmopolitans: Cross-Cultural Collaborations in Asian American Literary Production East-West Literary Imagination: Cultural Exchanges from Yeats to Morrison
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 895–897.
Published: 01 December 2019
.... Chesnutt and Sui Sin Far, the first African American and Asian American authors, respectively, to be published by major literary publishing houses in the United States. Particularly illuminating are the coterminous juxtapositions between Chesnutt and Sui Sin Far and between Gates’s The Signifying Monkey...
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