Charles Waddell Chesnutt (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
Other Literary Forms
Charles Waddell Chesnutt’s two major collections of short stories are The Conjure Woman (1899) and The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line (1899). Some critics consider both collections novels. Although he does not view the works as novels, William Andrews in The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt (1980) explains why some think the collections should be called “novels.”
At the heart of The Conjure Woman is former slave Uncle Julius McAdoo, whose reminiscences in black dialect present a picture...
[The entire page is 5596 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Navigate
See Also
