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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... southern economy after the Confederate defeat . In what were elsewhere in America years of booming develop- ment , then , Chesnutt lived in a place well outside the centers of contemporary vitality , in a provincial town stalled in a ...
... southern economy after the Confederate defeat . In what were elsewhere in America years of booming develop- ment , then , Chesnutt lived in a place well outside the centers of contemporary vitality , in a provincial town stalled in a ...
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... southern blacks only want greater oppor- tunities to join " the influential ' middle class ' " ( 108 ) and make private property secure . The lack of literary centers in the South meant that Ches- nutt's ambition to write always drove ...
... southern blacks only want greater oppor- tunities to join " the influential ' middle class ' " ( 108 ) and make private property secure . The lack of literary centers in the South meant that Ches- nutt's ambition to write always drove ...
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... Southern States . In the course of the let- ter he says , if I mistake not , " Let the colored people protect themselves " , and speaks of the " intense white light of criticism " which would protect them in the exercise of their lawful ...
... Southern States . In the course of the let- ter he says , if I mistake not , " Let the colored people protect themselves " , and speaks of the " intense white light of criticism " which would protect them in the exercise of their lawful ...
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A NOTE ON THE TEXT | 37 |
SECOND JOURNAL 18771881 | 122 |
THIRD JOURNAL 18811882 | 157 |
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