edited by Susan Prothro Wright and Ernestine Pickens Glass
Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
c2010
xiii, 132 p. ;
24 cm
Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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Chesnutt, Charles W., (Charles Waddell),1858-1932-- Criticism and interpretation