- Fiction, Riots, African Americans, Race relations
"This edition of Charles W. Chesnutt's 1901 novel about racial conflict in a southern town features an extensive selection of materials that place the work in its historical context.
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Grave, earnest, prestige and bleak.
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- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- First published
- 1901
- Pages
- 252
- Publisher
- Norton & Company Limited, W. W., University of Michigan Press, Barnes & Noble Press
- Editions
- 144
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780486838373
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“Though only a twenty-three-year-old African American school principal in Fayetteville, North Carolina, when he made these journal entries, Charles Waddell Chesnutt was indeed destined to claim for himself the title of "author."”
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