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...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Bryan Wagner Duke University Press 2001 Bryan Charles Chesnutt and the Epistemology Wagner of Racial Violence 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 85 of 232 In November 1898...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

..., 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...

... 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...

...; 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...

... 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...

..., 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...

... 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...

.... 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...

... 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...

...- 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...

... 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...

... 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...

.... 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...