Neither Fish, Flesh, nor Fowl: Race and Region in the Writings of Charles W. Chesnutt

Neither Fish, Flesh, nor Fowl: Race and Region in the Writings of Charles W. Chesnutt

Charles W. Chesnutt's most widely anthologized short story, "The Wife of His Youth" can be read as an allegory for the changing relationship between blacks and mixed-race peoples and between the free born and the freedmen during and after Reconstruction. Chesnutt's mixed society...

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Veröffentlicht in:African American review 2000-10, Vol.34 (3), p.461-473
1. Verfasser: Fleischmann, Anne
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
African American culture
African American studies
African Americans
American literature
Black literature
Black people
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell (1858-1932)
Former slaves
Hybridity
Literary criticism
Metaphor
Race
Racial identity
Regional identity
Short stories
Slavery
Slaves
White people
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Zusammenfassung:Charles W. Chesnutt's most widely anthologized short story, "The Wife of His Youth" can be read as an allegory for the changing relationship between blacks and mixed-race peoples and between the free born and the freedmen during and after Reconstruction. Chesnutt's mixed society functions as a metaphor for the rejection of a two-race culture and as an indictment of segregation's color-coded "placing."
ISSN:1062-4783
1945-6182
DOI:10.2307/2901384