The Absent Man: The Narrative Craft of Charles W. Chesnutt

by Charles Duncan

As the first African-American fiction writer to achieve a national reputation, Ohio native Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) in many ways established the terms of the black literary tradition now exemplified by such writers as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Charles Johnson.

Following the highly autobiographical nonfiction produced by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and other slave narrative writers, Chesnutt's complex, multi-layered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821412396
• ISBN13: 9780821412398
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"