The Ways of Making Literature Matter and Marrow of Tradition

By Charles Waddell Chesnutt, John Schilb, John Clifford

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By Kate Chopin, Upton Sinclair, Stephen Crane, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Stephen Railton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Conjure Woman

By Charles Waddell Chesnutt

The House Behind the Cedars

By Charles Waddell Chesnutt

An early masterwork among American literary treatments of miscegenation, Chesnutt’s story is of two young African Americans who decide to pass for white in order to claim their share of the America...

Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line

By Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Unlike the popular "Uncle Remus" stories of Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Chesnutt's tales probe psychological depths in black people unheard of before in Southern regional writing. They also ex...

Mandy Oxendine

By Charles Waddell Chesnutt

In a novel rejected by a major publisher in the late nineteenth century as too shocking for its time, Charles W. Chesnutt challenges the notion that race, class, education, and gender must define w...

Mandy Oxendine

By Charles Waddell Chesnutt

In a novel rejected by a major publisher in the late nineteenth century as too shocking for its time, Charles W. Chesnutt challenges the notion that race, class, education, and gender must define w...

The House Behind the Cedars

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Charles Chesnutt’s classic novel, hailed by Werner Sollors as “a pioneering work of racial passing.” Edited and featuring an introduction and notes from Judith Jackson Fossett. A riveting portrait...

The marrow of tradition

By Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Conjure Woman

By Charles Waddell Chesnutt