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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Chesnutt"”.
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The Life And Songwriting Of Vic Chesnutt
… is an exploration of the life and music of Vic Chesnutt, and it accompanies a documentary film. Both components feature interview excerpts from over 30 hours of film footage with Chesnutt, as interspersed with archival documents of his life, along with dozens of interviews with his family, …
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An Analysis of the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt
Summary of Author: Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) is a black short story author and novelist whose two volumes of short stories and three novels of purpose depict racial tensions present in the South during the post-Reconstruction era. He addressed a culture dominated by the myth of white …
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Mining the garrison of racial prejudice: The fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt and turn-of-the-century White racial discourse
… analyzes the fiction of Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932), the first black fiction writer published by a major American firm and widely reviewed and read by white critics and readers. My analysis focuses on the conflict between Chesnutt's anti-racism and his attempt to make his …
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We know where you belong at: Institutions and Marginalized Bodies in the Literature of Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty
… social norms. The literary works of Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty depict the ways in which marginalized bodies are socially regulated and punished. By using Michel Foucault’s theories about power and knowledge, I explore how each of these works uses surveillance to …
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Folklore for a New Generation: Charles Chesnutt's Updated Trickster Figure
… during the era of American Realism, Charles Chesnutt was arguably one of the most controversial yet prolific authors to address the recent advent of slavery. <em>The Conjure Woman</em> was a publication of seven frame narratives that employed the traditional style of a former slave telling …
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Conjuring as a Critique of Medical Racism in Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales
Charles W. Chesnutt has long been regarded as one of the most influential African American writers of the 19th-century, and his works have been lauded for their skillful maneuvering of language, audience, and cultural forms. The The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales has often been considered …
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The Influence and Subversion of the Southern Folk Tradition in the Novels of William Faulkner
… I also examine the conjure tales of Charles Chesnutt. Uncle Julius exemplifies black folk wisdom being used to outsmart the white northerners, demonstrating how many use folk culture to further their own ends. The third chapter examines the grotesque, through an examination of Harris, …
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A mirror for the republic : mimesis, racial justice, and American literary realism.
… to challenge their racist misconceptions. Twain, Chesnutt, Dunbar, and Crane, the writers in this study, used recognizable patterns and historical events that their audience would recognize only to upturn those patterns at emotionally key moments. By creating an emotional connection with the …
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Between the Mob and the Noose: The Lynching Intercessor in American Literature and Film
… of this character type in the works of Charles Chesnutt, Thomas Dixon, Jr., director John Ford, William Faulkner, and Harper Lee, my dissertation reveals the lynching intercessor as an American narrative technique for incorporating lynching into a national story of racial progress.</p>
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Two Trains Running: Capture and Escape in the Racialized Train Cars of the Jim Crow South, 1893-1930
… decades, meeting along the way novelists Charles Chesnutt and James Weldon Johnson and musicians W. C. Handy, Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas, and Honeyboy Edwards. I find that by studying the train scenes and train sounds produced by these black men under the constraints of the Jim Crow South, we …
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Repressions and revisions: the afterlife of slavery in Southern literature
… black authors Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Chesnutt revise plantation romance, their techniques of masking and doubling enabling them to create an alternative collective memory that exposes the trauma of slavery and the fictive constructs of paternalism. Nonetheless, their lack of success …
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Russell Kirk's Column "To the point": Traditional Aspects of Conservatism.
<p>From 1962 to 1975, General Features Corporation distributed a column by traditional conservative Russell Kirk. The column appeared on the political page of newspapers across the country under the title “To The Point”.<sup>1</sup> The column provided social commentary on a wide variety of topics …
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Bricolage Propriety: The Queer Practice of Black Uplift, 1890–1905
… literary genre, the novels of Charles W. Chesnutt, Pauline E. Hopkins, and Sutton E. Griggs provide a critical model for how to think about race as a form of transgressive sexuality; further, these texts show how integral racial representation at the end of the nineteenth century is to our …
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Narratives of Hostility and Survivance in Multiethnic American Literature, 1850-1903
… and expectations. This includes works by Charles Chesnutt, S. Alice Callahan, and John Rollin Ridge. Finally, I look at Chinese American responses to calls for their extermination and forced deportation/exclusion throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century. Chinese Americans went directly …
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Exploring Camper Perspectives on Health Care Transition Programming Offered Through Medical Specialty Camps
Planned health care transition from pediatric to adult health care is necessary for adolescents and young adults with chronic diagnoses to have positive health outcomes. Medical specialty camps offer an opportunity for campers to connect with others who have similar conditions, learn about their …
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The Writing of Nation: Faulkner and the Postbellum South
This dissertation argues that William Faulkner, drawing on a conversation begun by earlier Southern writers, writes his anxiety about the South's assimilation into the nation. Specifically, I argue that his early works show repulsion to the idea of the South's assimilation, while his later works …