The Marrow of Tradition (AmazonClassics Edition) - Rilegato

Chesnutt, Charles W.

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ISBN 10: 1542030900 ISBN 13: 9781542030908

Casa editrice: AmazonClassics, 2021

Riassunto

Drawing on the 1898 overthrow of the Wilmington, North Carolina, government by white supremacists, Charles W. Chesnutt’s classic novel unmasked the racism of the post-Reconstruction South.

William Miller is an eminent black physician determined to build a practice and advance the cause of reconciliation in his hometown during the Jim Crow era. Major Carteret is a white supremacist newspaperman sowing the seeds of unrest in an already segregated city. With county elections at stake, a murder provides all the fuel that Major Carteret needs to spark a violent revolt, with typically tragic consequences. And justice, when it comes, is only partial and incomplete.

Written to refute the white press’s distorted, propagandistic reporting of the Wilmington coup d’état, and filled with a myriad of rich characters and devastating twists of fate, The Marrow of Tradition is as relevant today as it was more than a century ago.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Marrow of Tradition, this edition of The Marrow of Tradition (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858–1932) was an African American activist, educator, lawyer, and writer best known for his prose explorations of race and social identity in the post–Civil War South.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Chesnutt returned with his parents to their native state of North Carolina following the Civil War. He was educated at the Howard School, an institution founded by the Freedmen’s Bureau. Pursuing his interests in literature, foreign languages, music, and law, Chesnutt moved back to Cleveland and established his own prosperous court-reporting firm. It was Chesnutt’s passion for social reform through writing that occupied the remainder of his life, beginning with the short story “The Goophered Grapevine”―the first work of fiction by an African American writer to be published by Atlantic Monthly. Chesnutt was the author of two short-story collections, numerous essays, a biography of Frederick Douglass, and eight novels, five of which were published posthumously.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: AmazonClassics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• ISBN 10: 1542030900
• ISBN 13: 9781542030908
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 300
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile