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The Colonel's Dream de Charles W. Chesnutt

The Colonel's Dream

Autor Charles W. Chesnutt
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First published in 1905, this novel portrays the continuing oppression and racial violence prominent in the South even after the Civil War. The economy of the South was doing very poorly and further limited the opportunities for Black people to work their way up the socioeconomic ladder. By presenting life in Clarendon, Chesnutt illustrates how unfairly Black people were treated in the South during this time. The novel follows Colonel Henry French through the difficulty he faces in trying to reform the southern town, as he meets unfair resistance and violence from the racist people of the town. Although the novel ended up a failure, Chesnutt accurately depicts the hopelessness of reforming the South through the story of Colonel Henry French and the Southern town of Clarendon, North Carolina.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781542626255
ISBN-10: 1542626250
Pagini: 226
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg

Notă biografică

Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was among the first African American novelists to be published by a major American house on the strength of literary merit rather than as a curiosity, and he remains under-shelved relative to that standing. William Dean Howells, the most influential American critic of the era, championed him; Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois both claimed him as an ally, even as they disagreed with each other. Chesnutt himself, of mixed-race ancestry and light-skinned enough to have "passed" had he chosen to, spent his career refusing that choice and writing directly into the color line instead - making him a rare literary witness who saw Jim Crow-era America from a vantage most canonical white authors of the period could not occupy and most Black authors of the period were not permitted to publish from. The Colonel's Dream (1905), his last novel, is his angriest and most explicit: a white Confederate veteran returns to his ruined North Carolina hometown determined to modernize and reform it, and discovers that Reconstruction's failure was not an accident but a structure the town's leading citizens actively maintain. It is Chesnutt's most direct indictment of convict-lease labor and debt peonage, written a full generation before those systems drew sustained national attention, by a novelist working from the inside of the region he was describing. For a library, he answers a specific and common gap: an American classics shelf built primarily from white authors writing about Reconstruction from outside it. Chesnutt offers primary-source literary evidence contemporaneous with the period, not a later reconstruction of it, and his prose is plain and propulsive enough that the historical weight never becomes an obstacle to readers who come for the story. This Clearview Editions large-print printing - 18-point Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, ragged-right, undivided words - brings a historically under-served author to the exact accessibility standard his more canonical contemporaries already enjoy in most library systems.

Cuprins

Introduction
Editor’s Note
The Colonel’s Dream
About the Authors

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African American writer, essayist, Civil Rights activist, legal-stenography businessman, and lawyer whose novels and short stories explore race, racism, and the problematic contours of African Americans’ social and cultural identities in post-Civil War South. He was the first African American to be published by a major American publishing house and served as a beacon-point for future African American writers. 
The Colonel’s Dream, written in 1905, is a compelling tale of the post-Civil War South’s degeneration into a region awash with virulent racist practices against African Americans: segregation, lynchings, disenfranchisement, convict-labor exploitation, and endemic violent repression. The events in this novel are powerfully depicted from the point of view of a philanthropic but unreliable southern white colonel. Upon his return to the South, the colonel learns to abhor this southern world, as a tale of vicious racism unfolds. Throughout this narrative, Chesnutt confronts the deteriorating position of African Americans in an increasingly hostile South. Upon its publication The Colonel’s Dream was considered too controversial and unpalatable because of its bitter criticisms of southern white prejudice and northern indifference, and so this groundbreaking story failed to gain public attention and acclaim. 
This is the first scholarly edition of The Colonel’s Dream. It includes an introduction and notes by R. J. Ellis and works to reestablish this great novel’s reputation.