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Stories, novels, & essays

Paperback • 2002 • English

Stories, novels, & essays

By Charles W. Chesnutt

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About the book

Rejecting his era's genteel hypocrisy about miscegenation, lynching, and "passing," Charles W. Chesnutt broke new ground in American literature with his innovative explorations of racial identity and use of African-American speech and folklore. Chesnutt exposed the deformed logic of the Jim Crow system-creating, in the process, the modern African-American novel. Here is the best of Chesnutt's fiction and nonfiction in the largest and most comprehensive edition ever published, featuring a newly r...Show more

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9781931082068

Publisher

New York : Library of America

Published year

2002

Language

English

Original title

Stories, novels, & essays

Format

Paperback

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