Conjure Tales And Stories of the Color Line (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Chesnutt, Charles W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141185023 ISBN 13: 9780141185026

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2000

Unlike the popular -Uncle Remus- stories of Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Chesnutt's tales probe psychological depths in black people unheard of before in Southern regional writing. They also expose the anguish of mixed-race men and women and the consequences of racial hatred, mob violence, and moral compromise. This important collection contains all the stories in his two published volumes, The Conjure Woman and The Wife of His Youth, along with two uncollected works: the tragic -Dave's Neckliss- and -Baxter's Procustes-, Chesnutt's parting shot at prejudice. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

About the Author:

William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of To Tell a Free Story and editor or coeditor of more than thirty books on African American literature.

Synopsis:

Gathers stories that reflected changing racial attitudes in America, probed the psychological depths of southern blacks, and gave literary voice to the broad range of the African-American experience.

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0141185023
• ISBN 13: 9780141185026
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304