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Resultaten voor 'charles w chesnutt'
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The House Behind the Cedars
Explores the lives and fates of two young African-Americans who decide to pass for white in order to claim their share of the American dream. By the author of "The Marrow of Tradition".
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The House Behind the Cedars
The House Behind the Cedars (1900) is a subtle and tragic novel of racial passing, family loyalty, and social constraint in the post-Reconstruction South. Set largely in fictional Patesville, North Carolina, it follows Rena Walden and her brother John Warwick as they cross the color line into white society, only to discover the moral and emotional costs of concealment. Chesnutt blends realism, local color, melodrama, and psychological irony, placing the novel within the tradition of nineteenth-century social fiction while sharply challenging the racial assumptions of its age. Charles W. Chesnutt, one of the first major African American fiction writers to reach a national white readership, drew deeply on his own knowledge of Southern racial caste. Born in Cleveland and raised in North Carolina, he worked as a teacher, court reporter, and lawyer, and he understood both the legal structures and intimate human injuries produced by segregation and racial classification. This novel is recommended to readers interested in American realism, African American literary history, and the cultural politics of identity. It remains a powerful study of how race is socially invented yet personally devastating.
€ 8,90 -
The Colonel's Dream
A Novel (Cram Edition)€ 27,50 -
The Conjure Woman (Cram Edition)
€ 19,50 -
The House Behind the Cedars (Cram Edition)
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The Conjure Woman
€ 26,50 -
The Conjure Woman
The Conjure Woman is a collection of fantastical stories narrated by Julius, a former slave, about life on the nearby plantations prior to the Civil War. Each involves an element of magic, be it a vine that dooms those who eat from it or a man transformed into a tree to avoid being separated from his wife. Julius's audience, a married couple who have just moved to the South to cultivate grapes, listen on with mixed sympathy and disbelief. They disagree on whether Julius is telling the truth and whether there is some deeper significance to the tales. At turns humorous and unsettling, these stories provide a surprising lens into the realities of slavery.The text is notable for spelling out Julius's spoken accent. Although Julius has some stereotypical features of a simple-minded old slave, he is often regarded as a more clever and complicated figure. He seems to tell his tales not only to entertain his listeners, but to trick them to his advantage.Many of these stories first appeared in national magazines, where they received popular acclaim, before being assembled as their own volume in 1899. Charles W. Chesnutt's race was not mentioned by the publisher, nor could many guess his African heritage based on his appearance. However, Chesnutt embraced his African-American identity and was a prominent activist for black rights. The Conjure Woman, his first book, is considered an important early work of African-American fiction.This edition includes four additional Julius tales that appeared in magazines but were not collected during Chesnutt's lifetime.
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The Conjure Woman
€ 16,50 -
Collected Short Stories (Edition38th)
€ 34,50 -
The Marrow of Tradition
This teaching edition of Charles W. Chesnutt's 1901 novel about racial conflict features an extensive selection of materials - such as letters, photographs, editorials, speeches, legal decisions and journalism from leading periodicals of the era - that place the work in its historical context.
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The Marrow of Tradition
A story about the struggles of black and white half-sisters, written by the author of "The Conjure Woman", "The Wife of His Youth", "The House Behind the Cedars" and "The Colonel's Daughter".
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The Colonel's Dream
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858–1932) was an African American writer, essayist, civil rights activist, legal-stenography businessman, and lawyer whose novels and short stories explore race, racism, and the problematic contours of African Americans' social and cultural identities in post–Civil War South. He was the first African American to be published by a major American publishing house and served as a beacon-point for future African American writers.R. J. Ellis is professor of American studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. His positions have included founding chair of the United Kingdom Council for Area Studies Associations and president of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
€ 37,50