Charles Chesnutt - Crossing the Color Line

Charles Waddell Chesnutt ranks as one of America's foremost Black authors and social activists at the turn of the twentieth century. A pioneering author of African American fiction, Chesnutt is known for being one of the first African American authors to break into the Anglo American publishing world.

About the author

Paula Gallant Eckard is professor of English and director of American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. A noted expert on the Southern literary tradition, she is the author of Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith (University of Missouri Press, 2002) and Thomas Wolfe and Lost Children in Southern Literature (University of Tennessee Press, 2016).

Product details

• Authors: Paula Gallant Eckard, Eckard Paula Gallant
• Assisted by: John David Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 19.03.2026
• EAN: 9781538189740
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-8974-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Library of African American Biography
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; USA, Biography: general, 20th Century, North America, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, The Americas, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, HISTORY / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people, Relating to people of the African diasporas / heritage, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / African American & Black