The Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt

"I can think of no more astute commentator on American life in the rural South in the years after the Civil War than Charles W. Chesnutt. Chesnutt's journals recreate the debilitating racism he encountered as a young man and also reveal the strength, courage, and integrity through which he became one of America's most important writers."--Cathy N. Davidson

List of contents

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

A Note on the Text 37

First Journal, 1874-1875 39

Second Journal, 1877-1881 85

Third Journal, 1881-1882 157

Index 183

About the author

Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) is the author of The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories (1899), The House Behind the Cedars (1900), The Marrow of Tradition (1901), and Colonel's Dream (1905). The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales, a collection of Charles W. Chesnutt's short stories, is also published by Duke University Press.

Richard H. Brodhead, Professor of English at Yale University, is the author of numerous books about nineteenth-century American literature.

Product details

• Authors: CHESNUTT, Charles W Chesnutt, Charles W. Chesnutt, Charles Waddell Chesnutt
• Assisted by: Richard H Brodhead (Editor), Richard H. Brodhead (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.10.1993
• EAN: 9780822314240
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1424-0
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 235 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 358 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Biografien: allgemein, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, 1500 bis heute, Tagebücher, Briefe, Notizbücher, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Amerikanisches Englisch