The Marrow of Tradition (Ann Arbor Paperbacks) - Softcover

Chesnutt, Charles W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047206147X ISBN 13: 9780472061471

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 1969

Synopsis

One of the most significant novels in American literature, "The Marrow of Tradition" is based on the Wilmington, North Carolina, Massacre of 1898. Called a "race riot" by the inflammatory Southern press and engineered by white Democrats who had seen their political slip into the hands of Republicans, many of whom were black, it was in fact a coup that restored power to the Democrats by subverting the principles of free democratic election. Some of Charles Chestnutt's relatives lived through the violence, and their accounts inspired this powerful and passionate novel.

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Review:

"Chesnutt was tremendously explicit in representing the violence and his own anger. Today it reads as one of the more enduring novels of the era." Richard Yarborough, UCLA"

About the Author:

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858 - 1932) was an African - American novelist, short - story writer, political activist, and essayist. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Chesnutt is famous for his novels and short stories, in which he explores the problems of social and ethnic identity created in the United States by slavery. He is regarded as a consummate American writer of fiction of the late - 19th - century. Chesnutt's famous works include The Wife of His Youth (1899) andThe Marrow of Tradition (1901).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 047206147X
• ISBN 13: 9780472061471
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352