Conjure Stories Nce Pa
ISBN: 9780393927801 | 0393927806
Edition: 00Format: Textbook Paperback
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 12/17/2011
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This Norton Critical Edition of The Conjure Stories arranges the tales chronologically by composition date, allowing readers to discern how Chesnutt experimented with plots and characters and with the idea of the conjure story over time. With one exception, the text of each tale is that of the original publication. (The text of SThe Dumb Witness was established from two typescripts held at the archives of Fisk University.) The stories are accompanied by a thorough and thought-provoking introduction, detailed explanatory annotations, and illustr... MORE
| Introduction | |
| A Note on the Texts | |
| The Texts of the Conjure Stories | |
| The Goophered Grapevine | |
| Po' Sandy | |
| The Conjurer's Revenge | |
| Dave's Neckliss | |
| A Deep Sleeper | |
| Lonesome Ben | |
| The Dumb Witness | |
| A Victim of Heredity; or, Why the Darkey Loves Chicken | |
| The Gray W... MORE | |
| Mars Jeems's Nightmare | |
| Sis' Becky's Pickaninny | |
| Tobe's Tribulations | |
| Hot-Foot Hannibal | |
| The Marked Tree | |
| Contexts | |
| Sarah Ingle | |
| The Terrain of Chesnutt's Conjure Tales | |
| Charles W. Chesnutt | |
| From His Journal, Spring 1880 | |
| [Why could not a colored man . . . write a far better book about the South?] | |
| [I think I must write a book] | |
| William Wells Brown | |
| [Voudooism in Missouri] | |
| The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox Ovid | |
| The Transformation of Daphne into a Laurel | |
| Letters to Albion W. Tourgée and George Washington Cable | |
| To Tourgée, Sept. 26, 1889 | |
| To Cable, March 29, 1890 | |
| To Cable, June 13, 1890 | |
| The Deserted Plantation | |
| Superstitions and Folk-lore of the South | |
| The Free Colored People of North Carolina | |
| Adaptation of "The Dumb Witness" | |
| The Negro in Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed? | |
| Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem | |
| Criticism | |
| Early Criticism | |
| Critical Notices of The Conjure Woman | |
| Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt's Stories | |
| [Fiction with a Firm Sense of Art] | |
| Chesnutt and Walter Hines Page | |
| Modern Criticism | |
| [Black Magic, Audience, and Belief] | |
| [A Critique of the Plantation Legend] | |
| [The Cycle of the First Four Stories] | |
| [Julius's Ex-Slave Narrative] | |
| [Reason, Property, and Modern Metamorphoses] | |
| [The Sound of the Conjure Stories] | |
| [Chesnutt's Revision of Uncle Remus] | |
| [Chesnutt's Negotiation with the Dominant Literary Culture] | |
| Conjuring the Conjugal: Chesnutt's Scenes from a Marriage | |
| [Black Humor in the Conjure Stories] | |
| A Chronology | |
| Selected Bibliography | |
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