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"To Be an Author" : Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1889-1905 /

Collected in this volume are the 1889--1905 letters of one of the first African-American literary artists to cross the ""color line"" into the de facto segregated American publishing industry of the turn of the century. Selected for inclusion are those chronicling the rise of Cha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Leitz, Robert C., 1944- (Editor ), McElrath, Joseph R. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1997]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Preface; Acknowledgments ; Editorial Note ; INTRODUCTION; PART I Cable's Protege in 1889-1891 An ""Insider"" Views the Negro Question; PART II A Dream Deferred, 1891-1896 The Businessman Prevails; PART III Page's Protege in 1897-1899 The Remergence of the Artist and Prophet Artist and Prophet; PART IV The Professional Novelist of 1899-1902 Pursuit of the Dream; PART V Discontent in 1903-1904 A Turn to Argumentative Prose ; PART VI The Quest Renewed, 1904-1905 Argumentative Art for an Indifferent Readership; INDEX. 
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