The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- First Published: 1899
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Racism, Blacks, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Interracial relationships, Prejudices or antipathies, North Carolina
- Locales: South (U.S.)
Chesnutt summarized the theme of his second book of short stories in a letter to his publisher written a few months before it came out:
I should like to hope that the stories, while written to depict life as it is, in certain aspects that no one has ever before attempted to adequately describe, may throw a light upon the great problem on which the stories are strung; for the backbone of this volume is not a character, like Uncle Julius in The Conjure Woman, but a subject, as indicated in the title—The Color Line.
Chesnutt's more direct approach to these...
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