MARROW OF TRADITION NCE PA
ISBN: 9780393934144 | 0393934144
Edition: 00Format: Textbook Paperback
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 5/17/2012
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A party of Northern visitors had been staying for several days at the St. James Hotel. The gentlemen of the party were concerned in a projected cotton mill, while the ladies were much interested in the study of social conditions, and especially in the negro problem. As soon as their desire for information became known, they were taken courteously under the wing of prominent citizens and their wives, who gave them, at elaborate luncheons, the Southern white man's views of the negro, sighing sentimentally over the disappearance of the good old ne... MORE
| Introduction | p. xi |
| Charles W. Chesnutt's Own View of His New Story, The Marrow of Tradition (1901) | p. xxxix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xii |
| The Text of The Marrow of Tradition | p. 1 |
| Contexts | p. 197 |
| Family Background | p. 199 |
| Frances Richardson Keller [Chesnutt's Parents] | p. 199 |
| Selected Letters | p. 201 |
| To Walter Hines Page, Nov. 11, 1898 | ... MORE |
| To Walter Hines Page, [Mar. 22, 1899] | p. 202 |
| To Booker T. Washington, Oct. 8, 1901 | p. 204 |
| To Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Oct. 26, 1901 | p. 205 |
| From Booker T. Washington, Oct. 28, 1901 | p. 206 |
| To Booker T. Washington, Nov. 16, 1901 | p. 207 |
| To Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Dec. 30, 1901 | p. 208 |
| To William Monroe Trotter, [Jan. 1902] | p. 209 |
| From W. E. B. Du Bois to Houghton, Mifflin, Mar. 8, 1902 | p. 210 |
| To Mrs. W. B. Henderson, Nov. 11, 1905 | p. 210 |
| Literary Memoranda | p. 212 |
| Charles W. Chesnutt Plot Notes | p. 212 |
| Samples of Chesnutt's Hand-Corrected Proof Sheets of The Marrow of Tradition | p. 218 |
| Essays | p. 224 |
| From The Courts and the Negro | p. 224 |
| From What Is a White Man? | p. 226 |
| From The White and the Black | p. 228 |
| The Disfranchisement of the Negro | p. 231 |
| The 1898 Wilmington Riot | p. 248 |
| Biographical Sketch of Mrs. Felton | p. 249 |
| Rebecca Larimer Felton Mrs. Felton Speaks | p. 250 |
| Biographical Sketch of Alex Manly | p. 251 |
| Alex Manly Editorial | p. 254 |
| From Cause of Carolina Riots | p. 257 |
| The North Carolina Race Conflict | p. 260 |
| From Takes Mrs. Felton to Task for Speech | p. 264 |
| Rebecca Larimer Felton Mrs. W. H. Felton's Reply to Dr. Hawthorne's Attack | p. 265 |
| North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources From Wilmington Race Riot Draft Report Offers Revelations | p. 272 |
| 1898 Wilmington Race Riot Commission Findings | p. 274 |
| Hell Jolted Loose | p. 275 |
| White Declaration of Independence | p. 276 |
| Negro Rule Ended, Washington Post (Nov. 11, 1898) | p. 278 |
| The Riot at Wilmington, Washington Post (Nov. 22, 1898) | p. 283 |
| A Forgotten Issue, Boston Globe (Nov. 20, 1898) | p. 284 |
| Is It Negro Rule? Independent (Nov. 24, 1898) | p. 288 |
| The South and Negro Suffrage, New York Tribune (Nov. 25, 1898) | p. 291 |
| Alfred Moore Waddell The Story of the Wilmington, N.C., Race Riots, Collier's Weekly (Nov. 26, 1898) | p. 293 |
| Black Side of the Race Issue, Washington Post (Dec. 4, 1898) | p. 297 |
| From The Wilmington Riot, Cleveland Gazette (Dec. 10,1898) | p. 302 |
| Letter by a Negro Woman to President William McKinley (Nov. 13, 1898) | p. 303 |
| African Americans Killed or Wounded | p. 305 |
| Men Banished from Wilmington during and after the November 10 Violence | p. 310 |
| The Wilmington Riot, Chesnott's Relatives, and African American Fiction | p. 312 |
| Sylvia Lyons Render [Violence] | p. 312 |
| Richard Yarborough Violence, Manhood, and Black Heroism | p. 313 |
| The Cakewalk | p. 338 |
| Sheet Music from the 1890s Dusky Dinah: Cake-Walk and Patrol | p. 339 |
| Sambo at the Cake Walk | p. 340 |
| Remus Takes the Cake | p. 341 |
| Way Down South: Characteristic March, Cake-Walk and Two-Step | p. 342 |
| Cakewalk in the Contemporary Press A Negro Festival, New York Tribune (July 20, 1870) | p. 343 |
| A Cake Walk, San Francisco Chronicle (Oct. 6, 1873) | p. 346 |
| H. S. Keller The Cake Walk, Puck (Sept. 7, 1887) | p. 349 |
| They Walked for a Cake and Glory, Chicago Daily Tribune (Feb. 18, 1892) | p. 350 |
| The Cake Walk, New York Times (Feb. 18, 1892) | p. 351 |
| Took the Cake, Boston Globe (Aug. 23, 1892) | p. 353 |
| Criticism | p. 357 |
| Selected Contemporary Reviews and Early Assessments | p. 359 |
| The Race Question in Fiction, The Sunday Herald [Boston] (Oct. 27, 1901) | p. 359 |
| Hamilton Wright Mabie From The New Books, Outlook (Nov. 16, 1901) | p. 361 |
| Our Holiday Book Table, Ziorn's Herald (Dec. 4, 1901) | p. 362 |
| Mr. Chesnutt's "Marrow of Tradition," New York Times (Dec. 7, 1901) | p. 362 |
| A New Uncle Tom's Cabin, St. Paid Dispatch (Dec. 14, 1901) | p. 364 |
| Katherine Glover News in the World of Books, Atlanta Journal (Dec. 14, 1901) | p. 366 |
| Charles Alexander Our Journalist and Literary Folks, The Freeman [Indianapolis] (Dec. 28, 1901) | p. 367 |
| Mr. Chesnutt and the Negro Problem, Newark Sunday News (Dec. 29, 1901) | p. 368 |
| A. E. H. From "Fiction," The Chautauquan (Dec. 1901) | p. 372 |
| William Dean Howells ò From A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction, North American Review (Dec. 1901) | p. 373 |
| T. Thomas Fortune B Note and Comment, New York Age 0uly 20, 1905) | p. 374 |
| Sterling A. Brown, Arthur P. Davis, and Ulysses Lee [Racial Conflict in Fiction] | p. 375 |
| Sterling A. Brown Social Causes | p. 375 |
| Reception | p. 376 |
| Sylvia Lyons Render From Charles W. Chesnutt | p. 376 |
| William L. Andrews From The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt | p. 377 |
| Characters | p. 381 |
| John Edgar Wideman Charles W. Chesnutt: The Marrow of Tradition | p. 381 |
| P. Jay Delmar Character and Structure in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition | p. 390 |
| Ernestine Williams Pickens White Supremacy and Southern Reform | p. 397 |
| Samina Najmi From Janet, Polly, and Olivia: Constructs of Blackness and White Femininity in Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition | p. 400 |
| Jungian and Foucauldian Approaches | p. 413 |
| Marjorie George and Richard S. Pressman From Confronting the Shadow: Psycho-Political Repression in Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition | p. 413 |
| Ryan Jay Friedman From "Between Absorption | |
| Extinction": Charles Chesnutt and Biopolitical Racism | p. 420 |
| Plessy V. Ferguson and the Marrow of Tradition | p. 426 |
| U.S. Supreme Court Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) | p. 426 |
| Brook Thomas The Legal Argument of Charles W. Chesnutt's Novels | p. 427 |
| The Marrow of Tradition and History | p. 452 |
| Joyce Pettis The Literary Imagination and the Historic Event: Chesnutt's Use of History in The Marrow of Tradition | p. 452 |
| Jae H. Roe From Keeping an "Old Wound" Alive: The Marrow of Tradition and the Legacy of Wilmington | p. 463 |
| Eric J. Sundquist From Charles Chesnutt's Cakewalk | p. 472 |
| Realism, Tragic Mulatto, Violence | p. 487 |
| Ryan Simmons From Simple and Complex Discourse in The Marrow of Tradition | p. 487 |
| Stephen P. Knadler From Untragic Mulatto: Charles Chesnutt and the Discourse of Whiteness | p. 499 |
| Bryan Wagner From Charles Chesnutt and the Epistemology of Racial Violence | p. 510 |
| Charles W Chesnutt: A Chronology | p. 515 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 519 |
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