The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt

by William L. Andrews

Book Overview

The career of any black writer in nineteenth-century American was fraught with difficulties, and William Andrews undertakes to explain how and why Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) became the first Negro novelist of importance: "Steering a difficult course between becoming co-opted by his white literary supporters and becoming alienated from then and their access to the publishing medium, Chesnutt became the first Afro-American writer to use...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807124524
• ISBN13: 9780807124529
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"