Charles Chesnutt Reappraised: Essays on the First Major African American Fiction Writer

by David Garrett Izzo and Maria Orban

One of the best known and most widely read of early African American writers, Charles W. Chesnutt published more than fifty short stories, six novels, two plays, a biography of Frederick Douglass, and countless essays, poems, letters, journals, and speeches. Though he had light skin and was of mixed race, Chesnutt self-identified as a black man, and his writing was often boldly political, openly addressing problems of racial identity and injustice...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786441119
• ISBN13: 9780786441112
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher