Collections from two of our most influential African American writers-under the general editorship of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. An icon of nineteenth-century American fiction, Charles W. Chesnutt - an incisive…

Reevaluates Charles 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 to add richness to readings…

Charles Chesnutt was an African American writer. Chesnutt was an early pioneer is writing about African American folklore and racial identity. He wrote about lynchings, segregation and the hypocrisy of…

Growing up in Cleveland after the Civil War and during the brutal rollback of Reconstruction and the onset of Jim Crow, Charles W. Chesnutt could have passed as white but…

As the first African-American fiction writer to achieve a national reputation, Ohio native Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) in many ways established the terms of the black literary tradition now exemplified…

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First published in 1900 during an era when many white American leaders waxed hysterical about the threat to Anglo-Saxon civilization posed by racial intermixing, The House Behind the Cedars sensitively…

Seven short stories from an influential twentieth-century African-American author have been edited for modern readers. Changes include standardized spellings and replacement of offensive terms. There are no changes to plot…