Approaches to teaching the works of Charles W. Chesnutt / edited by Susanna Ashton and Bill Hardwig.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ashton, Susanna, 1967- editor.

Hardwig, Bill, editor.

Series:

Approaches to teaching world literature ; 149.

Approaches to teaching world literature, 1059-1133 ; 149

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932--Study and teaching (Higher).

Chesnutt, Charles W.

Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Study & Teaching.

LITERARY CRITICISM--American--African American.

Local Subjects:

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Study & Teaching.

LITERARY CRITICISM--American--African American.

Physical Description:

vii, 193 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2017.

Summary:

"Growing up in Cleveland after the Civil War and during the brutal rollback of Reconstruction and the onset of Jim Crow, Charles W. Chesnutt could have passed as white but chose to identify himself as black. An intellectual and activist involved with the NAACP who engaged in debate with Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, he wrote fiction and essays that addressed issues as various as segregation, class among both blacks and whites, Southern nostalgia, and the Wilmington coup d'état of 1898. The portrayals of race, racial violence, and stereotyping in Chesnutt's works challenge teachers and students to contend with literature as both a social and an ethical practice. In part 1 of this volume, "Materials," the editors survey the critical reception of Chesnutt's works in his lifetime and after, along with the biographical, critical, and archival texts available to teachers and students. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," address such topics in teaching Chesnutt as his use of dialect, the role of intertextuality and genre in his writing, irony, and his treatment of race, economics, and social justice"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Series information found on Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index.

ISBN:

9781603293310

1603293310

9781603293327

1603293329

OCLC:

996401840

Publisher Number:

40027903433