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Tag: American Literary Realism
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As a literary genre in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, many African American-to-white racial passing fictions are built around a stable set of narrative conventions: the passer decides to pass, moves to a new location, takes on a new name and identity, and then either dies, returns to his or her “true” race, or moves…
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Skinship: Dialectical Passing Plots in Hannah Crafts’ The Bondwoman’s Narrative American Literary Realism Volume 46, Number 2, Winter 2014 pages 116-136 Martha J. Cutter, Professor of English and Africana Studies University of Connecticut Racial definitions were in crisis within the U.S. during the mid-nineteenth century, with the country moving closer and closer to a Civil…
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Realist Historiography and the Legacies of Reconstruction in Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition American Literary Realism Volume 48, Number 2, Winter 2016 pages 147-165 Peter Zogas Charles W. Chesnutt had high hopes for his novel The Marrow of Tradition (1901). He thought that his retelling of the 1898 race riot and Democratic coup in…
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Hairy Paws and Bald Heads: Anxiety and Authority in W. D. Howells’ An Imperative Duty American Literary Realism Volume 48, Number 2, Winter 2016 pages 95-111 James Weaver, Assistant Professor of English Denison University, Granville, Ohio Intensely concerned with the cultural and personal implications of miscegenation and its resultant social upheaval, W. D. Howells’ An…
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Racial Fictions and the Cultural Work of Genre in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars
Racial Fictions and the Cultural Work of Genre in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars American Literary Realism Volume 48, Number 2, Winter 2016 pages 128-146 Melissa Asher Rauterkus, Assistant Professor of English University of Alabama, Birmingham I intend to record my impressions of men and things, and such incidents or conversations which…
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“Passing” in a White Genre: Charles W. Chesnutt’s Negotiations of the Plantation Tradition in “The Conjure Woman” American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 Volume 27, Number 2 (Winter, 1995) pages 20-36 Robert C. Nowatzki When Charles Chesnutt’s collection of plantation tales The Conjure Woman was published in 1899, the immensely popular plantation tradition in fiction had become…
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A Recovered Early Letter by Charles Chesnutt American Literary Realism Volume 40, Number 2 (Winter, 2008) pages 180-182 DOI: 10.1353/alr.2008.0006 Randall Gann University of New Mexico In the preface to the first volume of their edition of Charles Chesnutt’s letters, Joseph McElraih and Robert Leitz III contend that Chesnutt “was among the most visible figures…