The marrow of tradition /
"A landmark in the history of African-American fiction, this gripping 1901 novel was among the first literary challenges to racial stereotypes. Its tragic history of two families unfolds against the backdrop of the post-Reconstruction South and climaxes with a race riot based on an actual 1898...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Mineola, New York :
Dover Publications, Inc.,
2020.
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| Edition: | Dover edition. |
| Series: | Dover thrift editions.
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| Summary: | "A landmark in the history of African-American fiction, this gripping 1901 novel was among the first literary challenges to racial stereotypes. Its tragic history of two families unfolds against the backdrop of the post-Reconstruction South and climaxes with a race riot based on an actual 1898 incident. One of America's first great African-American novelists, Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) exposed the harsh dimensions of Southern prejudice before and after the Civil War. Powerful and passionate, his novels present richly imagined characters, both black and white, striving to make better lives for themselves"-- |
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| Item Description: | "This Dover edition, first published in 2020, is an unabridged republication of the work originally printed by Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, in 1901. The publisher's note consists of biographical material on the author excerpted from Joan Sherman's introduction to Charles W. Chesnutt's Tales of Conjure and the Color Line: 10 Stories (Dover Publications, Inc., 1998), as well as historical background on The Marrow of Tradition." |
| Physical Description: | xii, 227 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780486838373 0486838374 |