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  • The Colonel's Dream

    by Charles Waddell Chesnutt ...
    Series series Regenerations
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858–1932) was an African American writer, essayist, Civil Rights activist, legal-stenography businessman, and lawyer whose novels and short stories explore race, racism, and the problematic contours of African Americans’ social and cultural identities in post–Civil War South. He was the first African American to be published by a major American publishing house and ... Read more

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  • The Conjure Woman

    by Charles W. Chesnutt ...
    The Conjure Woman is a collection of fantastical stories narrated by Julius, a former slave, about life on the nearby plantations prior to the Civil War. Each involves an element of magic, be it a vine that dooms those who eat from it or a man transformed into a tree to avoid being separated from his wife. Julius's audience, a married couple who have just moved to the South to cultivate grapes, ... Read more

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  • The House Behind the Cedars

    by Charles W. Chesnutt ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Charles Chesnutt’s classic novel, hailed by Werner Sollors as “a pioneering work of racial passing.”Edited and featuring an introduction and notes from Judith Jackson Fossett.A riveting portrait of the shifting and intractable nature of race in American life, The House Behind the Cedars follows John and Rena Walden, mixed-race siblings who pass for white in the postbellum American South. The ... Read more

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  • The House Behind the Cedars

    by Charles W. Chesnutt ...
    Charles Chesnutt’s classic novel, hailed by Werner Sollors as “a pioneering work of racial passing.”Edited and featuring an introduction and notes from Judith Jackson Fossett.A riveting portrait of the shifting and intractable nature of race in American life, The House Behind the Cedars follows John and Rena Walden, mixed-race siblings who pass for white in the postbellum American South. The ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • The House Behind the Cedars

    by Charles W. Chesnutt ...
    The classic novel of two mixed-race siblings who flee the South after the Civil War, hiding their identities—until a romance brings the truth to light.A landmark in African American literature, The House Behind the Cedars tells the tale of Rena Walden, who runs away from North Carolina to start a new life with her brother. Their mixed ancestry allows them to "pass" as white—and they settle into ... Read more

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  • The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales

    by Charles W. Chesnutt ...
    Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an author, essayist and political activist whose works addressed the complex issues of racial and social identity at the turn of the century. Chesnutt's early works explored political issues somewhat indirectly, with the intention of changing the attitudes of Caucasians slowly and carefully. His characters deal with difficult issues of miscegenation, ... Read more

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  • The House Behind the Cedars

    by Charles W. Chesnutt ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 November 15, 1932) was an African-American author, essayist and political activist, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity…. Chesnutt's stories were more complex than those of many of his contemporaries. He wrote about characters' dealing with difficult issues of ... Read more

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  • The Conjure Woman

    by Charles W. Chesnutt ...
    The Conjure Woman by Charles W. Chesnutt is a groundbreaking collection of short stories that blends folklore, realism, and social critique to explore life in the post-Civil War American South. Through the frame of an ex-slave storyteller and his Northern employer, Chesnutt presents a series of tales that draw on African American oral traditions, superstition, and spiritual beliefs. Each story ... Read more

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  • The House Behind the Cedars

    by Charles W. Chesnutt ...
    The novel's plot revolves around the lives of two siblings, John and Rena Walden, who are of mixed race. At the beginning of the story, they are living in a small town in North Carolina, where they are perceived as white due to their light skin and blue eyes. However, when Rena decides to move to the city of Patesville to pursue her dreams of becoming a cultured woman, she faces the dilemma of ... Read more

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  • The House Behind the Cedars

    by Charles W. Chesnutt ...
    The House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt is a powerful and deeply moving novel that explores identity, race, and social boundaries in post–Civil War America. Set in the American South during a period of rigid racial divisions and shifting social structures, the story follows individuals who must navigate a world defined by appearance, heritage, and the strict codes of society. At the ... Read more

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  • The Conjure Woman

    by Charles W. Chesnutt ...
    The stories are framed as narratives told by Uncle Julius, an elderly former slave, to a Northern white couple, depicting tales of African American folklore, hoodoo, and the supernatural. These stories explore themes of race, slavery, and the complex relationships between blacks and whites in the post-Civil War South.Chesnutt's storytelling in "The Conjure Woman" is notable for its use of dialect ... Read more

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  • The Marrow of Tradition

    by Charles W. Chesnutt ...
    Series series Belt Revivals
    The classic, fictionalized account of a white supremacist insurrection in Reconstruction Era North Carolina—with a new introduction by Wiley Cash.On November 10, 1898, a mob of 400 people rampaged through the streets of Wilmington, North Carolina. In a violent reaction to the political power gained by African Americans during Reconstruction, the mob killed as many as sixty citizens, overthrew ... Read more

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