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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... record of any noteworthy events that may occur in my knowledge , a record of my performances as recapitulator in the Literary society , ' facts concerning teaching which are worthy of preservation ; criticisms on men and things , on ...
... record of any noteworthy events that may occur in my knowledge , a record of my performances as recapitulator in the Literary society , ' facts concerning teaching which are worthy of preservation ; criticisms on men and things , on ...
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... record of the most impor- tant events in one's own life , and the results to which they have led , together with the reflections which were suggested by them at the time of their occurrence , would be useful and entertain- ing in after ...
... record of the most impor- tant events in one's own life , and the results to which they have led , together with the reflections which were suggested by them at the time of their occurrence , would be useful and entertain- ing in after ...
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... record my impressions of men and things , and such incidents or conversations which take place within my knowledge , with a view to future use in literary work . I shall not record stale negro minstrel jokes , or worn out newspaper ...
... record my impressions of men and things , and such incidents or conversations which take place within my knowledge , with a view to future use in literary work . I shall not record stale negro minstrel jokes , or worn out newspaper ...
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A NOTE ON THE TEXT | 37 |
SECOND JOURNAL 18771881 | 122 |
THIRD JOURNAL 18811882 | 157 |
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The Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt Charles Waddell Chesnutt,Richard H. Brodhead Ограничен приказ - 1993 |
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