Robert Bone (essay date 1975)
SOURCE: Bone, Robert. Down Home: A History of Afro-American Short Fiction from Its Beginnings to the End of the Harlem Renaissance, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1975, 328 p.
[In the following excerpt, Bone examines regional literature written by African American authors in the American South particularly the fiction of Joel Chandler Harris and Charles W. Chesnutt.]
THE LOCAL-COLOR SCHOOL
When Chesnutt and Dunbar turned to story-writing in the 1880's and 1890's, they were not working in a cultural vacuum....
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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