The Journals of Charles W. ChesnuttDuke University Press, 1993 - 185 страница Born on the eve of the Civil War, Charles W. Chesnutt grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a county seat of four or five thousand people, a once-bustling commercial center slipping into postwar decline. Poor, black, and determined to outstrip his modest beginnings and forlorn surroundings, Chesnutt kept a detailed record of his thoughts, observations, and activities from his sixteenth through his twenty-fourth year (1874-1882). These journals, printed here for the first time, are remarkable for their intimate account of a gifted young black man's dawning sense of himself as a writer in the nineteenth century. Though he achieved literary success in his time, Chesnutt has only recently been rediscovered and his contribution to American literature given its due. The only known private diary from a nineteenth-century African American author, these pages offer a fascinating glimpse into Chesnutt's everyday experience as he struggled to win the goods of education in the world of the post-Civil War South. An extraordinary portrait of the self-made man beset by the urgencies and difficulties of self-improvement in a racially discriminatory society, Chesnutt's journals unfold a richly detailed local history of postwar North Carolina. They also show with great force how the world of the postwar South obstructed--and, unexpectedly, assisted--a black man of driving intellectual ambitions. |
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... give anything for her photograph , —Pshaw ! What a fool I am , sitting here [ blotted word ] I thought I was more of a man than that . " And O , my Eppie My jewel my Eppie , Wha wadna ' be happy Wi ' Eppie Adair ? By love and by beauty ...
... give anything for her photograph , —Pshaw ! What a fool I am , sitting here [ blotted word ] I thought I was more of a man than that . " And O , my Eppie My jewel my Eppie , Wha wadna ' be happy Wi ' Eppie Adair ? By love and by beauty ...
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... Give us this day- -as we forgive those who trespass against us . " It is a great pity . July 13. Yesterday I began my school . I had 26 scholars , but some " can't come no more right now , till we finish layin ' by " . Nearly all were ...
... Give us this day- -as we forgive those who trespass against us . " It is a great pity . July 13. Yesterday I began my school . I had 26 scholars , but some " can't come no more right now , till we finish layin ' by " . Nearly all were ...
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... give me instruction . Mr. N. answe [ re ] d that he did not know , and Mr. K advised him not , lest he should lose some of his pupils . Dr. Haigh who made one of the group , took up the cudgels in my defence , and thought the Professor ...
... give me instruction . Mr. N. answe [ re ] d that he did not know , and Mr. K advised him not , lest he should lose some of his pupils . Dr. Haigh who made one of the group , took up the cudgels in my defence , and thought the Professor ...
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A NOTE ON THE TEXT | 37 |
SECOND JOURNAL 18771881 | 122 |
THIRD JOURNAL 18811882 | 157 |
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