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Passing in the works of Charles W. Chesnutt / edited by Susan Prothro Wright and Ernestine Pickens Glass.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
- Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932--Criticism and interpretation.
- Chesnutt, Charles W.
- Passing (Identity) in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (147 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson, [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume reevaluates Charles W. Chesnutt's deft manipulation of the 'passing' theme to expand understanding of the author's fiction and non-fiction. Nine chapters apply a variety of theories - including intertextual, signifying/discourse analysis, narratological, formal, psycho-analytical, new historical, reader response, and performative frameworks - to add richness to readings of Chesnutt's works. It opens up new paths of inquiry into a major African American writer's oeuvre.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Charles W. Chesnutt's Historical Imagination; Signifying the Other: Chesnutt's "Methods of Teaching"; On Flags and Fraternities: Lessons in History in Charles Chesnutt's "Po' Sandy"; Passing as Narrative and Textual Strategy in Charles Chesnutt's "The Passing of Grandison"; The Dream of History: Memory and the Unconscious in Charles Chesnutt's The House behind the Cedars; In the Wake of D. W. Griffith's: The Birth of a Nation Chesnutt's Paul Marchand, F.M.C. as Command Performance; Performing Race: Mixed-Race Characters in the Novels of Charles Chesnutt
- A Question of Passing or a Question of Conscience: Toward Resolving the Ending of Mandy Oxendine""They Were All Colored to the Life": Historicizing "Whiteness" in Evelyn's Husband; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62103-605-7
- 1-282-50301-4
- 9786612503016
- 1-60473-418-3
- OCLC:
- 593240028
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