Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line: Collected Stories |
Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line: Collected Stories
Penguin Classics
June 2000
304 pages
5.23 x 7.59in
Paperback ISBN: 9780141185026
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)
Edited by:
William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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 expose the anguish of mixed-race men and women and the consequences of racial hatred, mob violence, and moral compromise.
This important collection contains all the stories in his two published volumes, The Conjure Woman and The Wife of His Youth, along with two uncollected works: the tragic “Dave’s Neckliss” and “Baxter’s Procustes,” Chesnutt’s parting shot at prejudice.
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