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

Other author Wright, Susan Prothro.
Other author Glass, Ernestine Pickens.
Format Book
Publication InfoJackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2010.
Descriptionxiii, 132 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesMargaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies. ^A446952
Contents Charles W. Chesnutt's historical imagination / Werner Sollors -- Signifying the other: Chesnutt's "methods of teaching" / SallyAnn H. Ferguson -- On flags and fraternities: lessons in history in Charles Chesnutt's "Po'Sandy" / Margaret D. Bauer -- Passing as narrative and textual strategy in Charles Chesnutt's "The passing of Grandison" / Martha J. Cutter -- The dream of history: memory and the unconscious in Charles Chesnutt's The house behind the cedars / Aaron Ritzenberg -- In the wake of D.W. Griffith's The birth of a nation: Chesnutt's Paul Marchand, F.M.C. as command performance / Susan Prothro Wright -- Performing race: mixed-race characters in the novels of Charles Chesnutt / Keith Byerman -- A question of passing or a question of conscience: toward resolving the ending of Mandy Oxendine / Donald B. Gibson -- "They were all colored to the life": historicizing "whiteness" in Evelyn's husband / Scott Thomas Gibson.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formAufsatzsammlung.
LCCN 2009020701
ISBN9781604734164 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1604734167 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS1292 .C6 Z8 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold