| Charles W. Chesnutt: Essays and Speeches Contributor(s): McElrath, Joseph R. (Editor), Leitz, Robert C. (Editor), Crisler, Jesse S. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0804735492 ISBN-13: 9780804735490 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1999 Annotation: The 77 works included in this volume comprise all of Chesnutt's known works of nonfiction, 38 of which are reprinted here for the first time. They reveal an ardent and often outraged spokesman for the African American whose militancy increased to such a degree that, by 1903, he had more in common with W. E. B. Du Bois than Booker T. Washington. He was, however, a lifelong integrationist and even an advocate of "race amalgamation, " seeing interracial marriage as the ultimate means of solving "the Negro Problem, " as it was termed at the end of the century. That he championed the African American during the Jim Crow era while opposing Black Nationalism and other "race pride" movements attests to the way Chesnutt defined himself as a controversial figure, in his time and ours. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 814.4 |
| LCCN: 98030654 |
| Physical Information: 1.75" H x 7.41" W x 10.27" (2.93 lbs) 636 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) has been considered by many the major African-American fiction writer before the Harlem Renaissance. This book collects essays he wrote from 1899 through 1931, the majority of which concern white racism, and political and literary addresses he made to both white and black audiences from 1881 through 1931. |