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Charles Waddell Chesnutt - The Conjure Woman

General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Short Stories,

24-12-2019

Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt's first book, The Conjure Woman, was a collection of seven short stories, all set in "Patesville" (Fayetteville), North Carolina. While drawing from local color traditions and relying on dialect, Chesnutt's tales of conjuring, a for...

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt - The Marrow of Tradition

Culture & Heritage Fiction, General Fiction, Historical Fiction,

21-12-2019

In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the raw nerves and internal machinery of racism in the post-Reconstruction-era South; explores how miscegenation, caste, gender and the ide...

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt - The Colonel's Dream

Literary Fiction, Published 1900 onward,

26-12-2019

In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former status quo and rebuilding itself as a region of the United States where new forms of "slavery" would replace the old. This novel illustrated h...

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt - The House Behind the Cedars

Literary Fiction, Published 1900 onward,

29-11-2019

In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the period spanning the antebellum and reconstruction eras in American history. And through his use of the vernacular prevalent in the South of ...

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

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Аудіокнига Frederick Douglass A Biography

Charles Waddell Chesnutt - Frederick Douglass A Biography

Biography & Autobiography,

10-12-2019

Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass became one of America's great icons. He escaped slavery to become one of our great abolitionists, statesman, writer, orator, all around social reformer and intellectual of our time. He was born in 1818 in the state of Maryland....

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

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Аудіокнига The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line

Charles Waddell Chesnutt - The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line

Culture & Heritage Fiction, Historical Fiction, Short Stories,

08-12-2019

Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim Crow laws on African Americans and white Americans of the South. Many of Chesnutt's characters are of mixed-race ancestry which sets them ap...

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

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