Contributor
McElrath, Joseph R.
Imprint:New York : G.K. Hall, c1999.
Descriptionxv, 306 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:REVIEWS (various). - ESSAYS AND ARTICLES: [Chesnutt as a mulatto figure] / Albert Bushnell Hart. - [A 'talented tenth'] / Alfred Holt Stone. - The mulatto: problem of a race mixture / Ray Stannard Baker. - [More caucasian than African] / Alfred Bushnell Hart. - Charles Waddell Chesnutt / Benjamin Griffith Brawley. - The negro's contribution to literature, music, and oratory / William H. Ferris. - The negro in literature / William Stanley Braithwaite. - The negro as writer / John Chamberlain. - Chesnutt / Sterling Brown. - The mulatto in American fiction / Penelope Bullock. - Social realism in Charles W. Chesnutt / Russell Ames. - Charles W. Chesnutt: novelist of a cause / Carol B. Gartner. - The art of The Conjure Woman / Richard E. Baldwin. - The evolution of Charles Chesnutt's The House Behind the Cedars / Robert P. Sedlack. - A better mousetrap: Washington's program and The Colonel's Dream / Susan L. Blake. - Rena Walden: Chesnutt's failed 'future American' / SallyAnn H. Ferguson. - Charles W. Chesnutt's The Wife of His Youth: the unveiling of the black storyteller / Lorne Fienberg. - Voices at the nadir: Charles Chesnutt and David Bryant Fulton / William Gleason. - W.D. Howells and race: Charles W. Chesnutt's disappointment of the Dean / Joseph R. McElrath, Jr. - Under the upas tree: Charles Chesnutt's gothic / Charles L. Crow. - The growth of a dozen tendrils: the polyglot satire of Chesnutt's The Colonel's Dream / Gary Scharnhorst. - Telling genealogy. notions of the family in The Wife of His Youth / Charles Duncan.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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