Charles Waddell Chesnutt (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt achieved his literary reputation and stature as a short-story writer. His scholarly bent and indelible concern for human conditions in American society, however, occasionally moved him to experiment in other literary forms. Based on his study of race relations in the American South, he wrote the novel The Marrow of Tradition (1901). As a result of the critical acclaim for this novel and for his first, The House Behind the Cedars (1900), Chesnutt became known not only as a short-story writer but also as a first-rate...
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