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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456689703321

Titolo

Passing in the works of Charles W. Chesnutt [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Susan Prothro Wright and Ernestine Pickens Glass

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2010

ISBN

1-62103-605-7

1-282-50301-4

9786612503016

1-60473-418-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (147 p.)

Collana

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

Altri autori (Persone)

WrightSusan Prothro

GlassErnestine Pickens

Disciplina

813/.4

Soggetti

Passing (Identity)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Charles W. Chesnutt's Historical Imagination; Signifying the Other: Chesnutt's "Methods of Teaching"; On Flags and Fraternities: Lessons in History in Charles Chesnutt's "Po' Sandy"; Passing as Narrative and Textual Strategy in Charles Chesnutt's "The Passing of Grandison"; The Dream of History: Memory and the Unconscious in Charles Chesnutt's The House behind the Cedars; In the Wake of D. W. Griffith's: The Birth of a Nation Chesnutt's Paul Marchand, F.M.C. as Command Performance; Performing Race: Mixed-Race Characters in the Novels of Charles Chesnutt

A Question of Passing or a Question of Conscience: Toward Resolving the Ending of Mandy Oxendine""They Were All Colored to the Life": Historicizing "Whiteness" in Evelyn's Husband; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt is a collection that reevaluates Chesnutt's deft manipulation of the ""passing"" theme to expand understanding of the author's fiction and nonfiction. Nine contributors apply a variety of theories---including intertextual, signifying/discourse analysis, narratological, formal, psychoanalytical, new historical, reader response, and performative frameworks---to



add richness to readings of Chesnutt's works. Together the essays provide convincing evidence that ""passing"" is an intricate, essential part of Chesnutt's writing, and that it appears in all t