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245	0	1	_a"To Be an Author" : _bLetters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1889-1905 / _ced. by Robert C. Leitz, Joseph McElrath.
250			_aCourse Book
264		1	_aPrinceton, NJ : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2014]
264		4	_c©1997
300			_a1 online resource (266 p.) : _b1 halftone
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	0		_aPrinceton Legacy Library ; _v354
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tCONTENTS -- _tPREFACE -- _tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- _tEDITORIAL NOTE -- _tINTRODUCTION -- _tPART I. Cable's Protege in 1889-1891. An "Insider" Views the Negro Question -- _tPART II. A Dream Deferred, 1891-1896. The Businessman Prevails -- _tPART III. Page's Protégé in 1897-1899. The Reemergence of the Artist and Prophet -- _tPART IV. The Professional Novelist of 1899-1902. Pursuit of the Dream -- _tPART V. Discontent in 1903-1904. A Turn to Argumentative Prose -- _tPART VI. The Quest Renewed, 1904-1905. Argumentative Art for an Indifferent Readership -- _tINDEX
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aCollected in this volume are the 1889--1905 letters of one of the first African-American literary artists to cross the "color line" into the de facto segregated American publishing industry of the turn of the century. Selected for inclusion are those chronicling the rise of Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), an attorney and businessman in Cleveland, Ohio, who achieved prominence as a novelist, short story writer, essayist, and lecturer despite the obstacles faced by a man of color during the "Jim Crow" period. In his insightful commentaries on his own situation, Chesnutt provides as well a special perspective on life-at-large in America during the Gilded Age, the "gay `90s" (which were not so gay for African Americans), and the Progressive era. Like his black correspondents--Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, T. Thomas Fortune, and William M. Trotter--he was one of the major commentators on what was then termed the "Negro Problem." His most distinguished novels, The House Behind the Cedars (1900) and The Marrow of Tradition (1901), were published by major "white" presses of the time; not only did his editors and publishers but then-preeminent black and white critics greet these literary protests against racism as proof of the intellectual and artistic excellence of which a long-oppressed people were capable when afforded equal opportunity.Since the 1960s, when the rediscovery of his genius began in earnest, Chesnutt has received even more recognition than he enjoyed by the early 1900s. Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., and Robert C. Leitz, III, have surveyed every collection of Chesnutt's papers and those of his correspondents in order to reconstruct the story of his most vital years as an author. Their introduction contextualizes the letters in light of Chesnutt biography and the less-than-promising prospects faced by a would-be literary artist of his racial background. Their encyclopedic annotations explaining contemporary events to which Chesnutt responds and what was then transpiring in both black and white cultural environments illuminate not only Chesnutt's character but those of many now unfamiliar figures who also contributed to what Chesnutt termed the "cause." Provided in this first-ever edition of Chesnutt's letters is a detailed portrait of one of the pioneers in the African-American literary tradition and a panorama of American life a century ago.Originally published in 1997.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650		0	_aAfrican American novelists _vCorrespondence.
650		0	_aAfrican American novelists _xCorrespondence.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xSocial conditions.
650		0	_aNovelists, American _xCorrespondence _x19th century.
650		0	_aNovelists, American _xCorrespondence _x20th century.
650		0	_aNovelists, American _y19th century _vCorrespondence.
650		0	_aNovelists, American _y20th century _vCorrespondence.
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. _2bisacsh
700	1		_aLeitz, Robert C. _ecuratore
700	1		_aMcElrath, Joseph _ecuratore
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