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

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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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Main Author: Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932 (Author)
Other Authors: Leitz, Robert C., 1944- (Editor), McElrath, Joseph R. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1997]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Chesnutt, Charles W. > (Charles Waddell), > 1858-1932.
Chesnutt, Charles W. > (Charles Waddell), > 1858-1932 > Correspondence.
Novelists, American.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African American novelists.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Noirs americains > Conditions sociales.
Romanciers noirs americains > Correspondance.
Romanciers americains > 20e siecle > Correspondance.
Romanciers americains > 19e siecle > Correspondance.
African American novelists > Correspondence.
Novelists, American > 20th century > Correspondence.
Novelists, American > 19th century > Correspondence.
Autobiographies.
Personal correspondence.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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