The Marrow of Tradition - Brossura

Chesnutt, Charles Waddell

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ISBN 10: 0312194064 ISBN 13: 9780312194062

Casa editrice: Bedford/st Martins, 2002

Riassunto

This teaching 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. Organized thematically, these materials explore caste, gender, and race after Reconstruction; postbellum laws and lynching; the 1898 Wilmington riot upon which the narrative is based; and the fin de siecle culture of segregation. The thematic sections are rich with documents such as letters, photographs, editorials, speeches, legal decisions, journalism, and essays from leading periodicals of the era. The writers represented include such well-known figures as W. E. B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as fascinating, half-forgotten characters like the black newspaper editor Alexander Manly and the white supremacist Thomas Dixon. The editors’ introductions and selection headnotes provide additional background for understanding the mythology of race and Chesnutt’s penetrating examination of its mechanisms and consequences.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

NANCY BENTLEY, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania.

SANDRA GUNNING, Department of English, University of Michigan.

Contenuti:

PART ONE: THE MARROW OF TRADITION: The Complete Text
Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background
Chronology of Chesnutt's Life and Times
A Note on the Text
The Marrow of Tradition [1001 Houghton Mifflin edition]
PART TWO: THE MARROW OF TRADITION: Cultural Contexts
Caste, Race and Gender After Reconstruction
Law and Lawlessness
The Wilmington Riot
Segregation as Culture: Etiquette, Spectacle, and Fiction

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bedford/st Martins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0312194064
• ISBN 13: 9780312194062
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 465
• Redattore: Bentley Nancy, Gunning Sandra