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This teaching edition of Charles W. Chesnutt’s 1901 novel about racial conflict in a Southern town features an extensive selection of materials that place the work in its historical context. Organized thematically, these materials explore caste, gender, and race after Reconstruction; postbellum laws and lynching; the 1898 Wilmington riot upon which the narrative is based; and the fin de siecle culture of segregation. The thematic sections are rich with documents such as letters, photographs, editorials, speeches, legal decisions, journalism, and essays from leading periodicals of the era. The writers represented include such well-known figures as W. E. B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as fascinating, half-forgotten characters like the black newspaper editor Alexander Manly and the white supremacist Thomas Dixon. The editors’ introductions and selection headnotes provide additional background for understanding the mythology of race and Chesnutt’s penetrating examination of its mechanisms and consequences.

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Based upon the Wilmington, NC, race riot of 1898 and written in 1901, this historical novel makes a plea for racial justice. A group of powerful white men continue to run the fictional town of Wellington and their households as though the Civil War had never occurred. Complicating matters even further, Olivia Carteret, wife of the white newspaper editor, discovers she and Janet Miller, wife of the town's black doctor, have the same father. As the town's residents battle their way through the social and racial issues resulting from the war, Olivia and Janet work their way through racial, social, and family issues. Michael Collins provides an excellent reading with his well-paced and expressive delivery combined with a wide range of male and female voices and accents. Professionally produced, this classic tale is recommended for all public, academic, and school libraries. Laurie Selwyn, Law Lib., Grayson Cty., Sherman, TX Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780140186864
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 2/28/1993
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 400
  • Sales rank: 568,304
  • Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.22 (w) x 7.82 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and African American Studies at Harvard University. He previously taught at Columbia University, the Free University of Berlin, and the Università degli Studi di Venezia. He is the author of Ethnic Modernism, Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature, Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture, and Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones: The Quest for a “Populist Modernism.” His edited works include A New Literary History of America (with Greil Marcus), African American Literary Studies: New Texts, New Approaches, New Challenges (with Glenda R. Carpio), The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature: A Reader of Original Texts with English Translations (with Marc Shell), Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of America, The Return of Thematic Criticism, Theories of Ethnicity: A Classical Reader, The Invention of Ethnicity, and the Norton Critical edition of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself.

Table of Contents

About the Series
 About This Volume
 Illustrations

PART ONE

The Marrow of Tradition: The Complete Text Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background Chronology of Chesnutt's Life and Times A Note on the Text The Marrow of Tradition [1901 Houghton Mifflin edition]

PART TWO
The Marrow of Tradition: Cultural Contexts

1. Caste, Race and Gender After Reconstruction
 Philip Bruce, from The Platinum Negro as a Freeman
 Tom Watson, from "The Negro Question in the South"
 William Dean Howells, from An Imperative Duty
 Booker T. Washington, "Atlanta Exposition Speech" from Up from Slavery
 Charles W. Chesnutt, from "The Future American"
 W.E.B. DuBois, from "The Conservation of Race"
 Theodore Roosevelt, from "Birth Reform, from the Positive, not the Negative Side"
 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, from Women and Economics
 Fannie Barrier Williams, from "The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Woman"
 Roscoe Conklin Bruce, from "Service by the Educated Negro"

2. Law and Lawlessness
 Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution
 George Washington Cable, from "The Freedman's Case in Equity"
 Plessy v. Ferguson (1896): excerpts from brief by Albion Tourgee, majority opinion by Justice Henry Billings Brown, and the dissenting opinion by Justice John Marshall Harlan
 "Suffrage and Eligibility to Office," Article VI, amendment to the North Carolina State Constitution
 Ida B. Wells, from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases
 "Lynched Negro and Wife First Mutilated," Vicksburg (Mississippi) Evening Post February 8, 1904
 "Victim's Family Begs to See Negro Burned," Atlanta Constitution October 2, 1905
 "Belleville is Complacent Over Horrible Lynching,: New York Herald June 9, 1903
 Jane Addams, from "Respect for Law," Independent
 Ray Stannard Baker, from "A Race Riot and After," Following the Color Line
 George H. White, from a speech before the United States House of Representatives, February 23, 1900

3. The Wilmington Riot
 Alexander Manly, editorial printed in Literary Digest, 1898
 Rebecca Latimer Fulton, speech reported in The Wilmington Star
 From the "White Man's Declaration of Independence" (or, Wilmington Declaration of Independence), from Appleton's Cyclopaedia
 Anonymous letter to William McKinley, 13 November 1898
 Charles Chesnutt, from letter to Walter Hines Page, 1898
 Jane Cronly, "An Account of the Race Riot in Wilmington, N.C."

4. Segregation as Culture: Etiquette, Spectacle, and Fiction
 Wilmington Messenger article, rpt in Raleigh New and Observer, 8 September 1899
 Photograph of "Old Plantation" Midway booth at the 1896 Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia
 From The Cotton States and International Exposition program
 Tom Fletcher, from 100 Years of the Negro in Show Business
 "Old" and "New" Negro photographs juxtaposed, from Frances Benjamin Johnston's The Hampton album.
 Charles Chesnutt, Literary Memoranda
 Charles Chesnutt, "Po' Sandy"
 Thomas Dixon, from The Leopard's Spots
 Williams Dean Howells, from "A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction" North American Review

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