Stories, Novels, and Essays

by Charles W. Chesnutt and TurtleMe

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931082065
• ISBN13: 9781931082068
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 939 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.2" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher