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Selected Bibliography
Andrews
, William L.
The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt
, pp. 17
–74
. Baton Rouge
: Louisiana State University Press
, 1980
.Baker
, Houston A.
Jr.Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
, especially
pp. 41
–47
. Chicago
: University of Chicago Press
, 1987
.Brodhead
, Richard H.
Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth Century America
, pp. 177
–210
. Chicago
: University of Chicago Press
, 1993
.Chesnutt
, Charles W.
“Superstitions and Folk-Lore of the South
.” Modern Culture
13
(May
1901
): 231
–35
. Reprinted in Alan Dundes, ed., Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1973
.Fienberg
, Lorne
. “Charles W. Chesnutt and Uncle Julius: Black Storytellers at the Crossroads
.” Studies in American Fiction
15
(1987
): 161
–73
.Hemenway
, Robert
. “The Functions of Folklore in Charles Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman
” Journal of the Folk Institute
13
(1976
): 283
–309
.Lauter
, Paul
. Canons and Contexts
, pp. 60
–71
. New York
: Oxford University Press
, 1991
.Mackethan
, Lucinda
. “Plantation Fiction, 1865–1900
.” In The History of Southern Literature
, ed. Rubin
Louis D.
et al, pp. 209
–18
. Baton Rouge
: Louisiana State University Press
, 1985
.Sollers
, Werner
. “The Goopher in Charles Chesnutt’s Conjure Tales: Superstition, Ethnicity, and Modern Metamorphosis
.” Letterature d’America
6
(1985
): 107
–29
.Stepto
, Robert B.
“‘The Simple but Intensely Human Inner Life of Slavery’: Storytelling and the Revision of History in Charles W. Chesnutt’s ‘Uncle Julius Stories.’
” In History and Tradition in Afro-American Culture, ed. Gunter Lenz
, pp. 29
–55
. Frankfurt
: Campus
, 1984
.Sundquist
, Eric J.
To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature
, pp. 271
–454
. Cambridge, Mass.
: Harvard University Press
, 1993
.Wideman
, John Edgar
. “Charles Chesnutt and the WPA Narratives: The Oral and Literate Roots of Afro-American Literature
.” In The Slave’s Narrative
, ed. Davis
Charles T.
and Gates
Henry Louis
Jr., pp. 59
–78
. New York
: Oxford University Press
, 1985
.
