Chesnutt and Realism - A Study of the Novels

About the author

Ryan Simmons is an instructor at Spokane Falls Community College, where he teaches courses including English, African American literature, and multicultural literature.

Summary

Provides an important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism. Although Chesnutt is typically acknowledged as the most prominent African American writer of the realist period, scholars have paid little attention to the central question of this study: what does it mean to call Chesnutt a realist?

Product details

• Authors: Ryan Simmons
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780817359966
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5996-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Series: Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism; Studies in American Literary R; American Literary Realism & Naturalism; American Literary Realism and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore