Record #:

34657

Author(s):

Baggett, Paul

Abstract:

Charles W. Chestnutt was one of the few African Americans to make their way into the white publishing circuit. His work was highly critical of white abuse and power struggle of the South, which Baggett argues is the reason his work was not as far-reaching or successful as Booker T. Washington, another highly regarded African American writer at time.

Source:

North Carolina Literary Review (NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 23 Issue 1, 2014, p80-94, il, por, f

Subject(s):

Literature--Southern; Civil War; Race relations--Reconstruction (1856-1877), Post