The Passing of Grandison | Critical Overview
Chesnutt’s significance in literary history goes beyond the craftsmanship of his stories, for he paved the way for the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, overcame many color barriers of the literary world, and opposed racism through the satire and wit in his stories. Even before he began his writing career, he explained in his journal that “the object of my writing would not be so much the elevation of the colored people as the elevation of the whites.” Understanding that an “unjust spirit of caste...subject[ed] a whole race...to scorn and social ostracism” and thereby constituted...
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