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Article: Janet, Polly, and Olivia: Constructs of Blackness and White Femininity in Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition.(Critical Essay)
- Article from:
- The Southern Literary Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 1999
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A century after the Wilmington, North Carolina, massacre of African Americans in 1898, Charles Chesnutt's superbly-crafted fictional account of the event, The Marrow of Tradition (1901), has finally began to receive the scholarly attention that is its due. Much of the focus has been on the nature of the novel's politics: while for its own time it was so radical as to permanently alienate even Chesnutt's champion, William Dean Howells,(1) in recent years critics have found fault with it for being both accommodationist and classist, while others have defended Chesnutt from these charges or tried to locate him somewhere in between a militant and an assimilationist stance. In ...
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