Our Generation: Adventures at Shelby Stables by Julie Driscoll

Our Generation: Adventures at Shelby Stables by Julie Driscoll

Growing up in Cleveland after the Civil War and during the brutal rollback of Reconstruction and the onset of Jim Crow, Charles W. Chesnutt could have passed as white but chose to identify himself as black. An intellectual and activist involved with the NACP who engaged in debate with Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois, he wrote fiction and essays that addressed issues as various as segregation, class among both blacks and whites, Southern nostalgia, and the Wilmington coup d' tat of 1898. The portrayals of race, racial violence, and stereotyping in Chesnutt's works challenge teachers and students to contend with literature as both a social and an ethical practice.

In part 1 of this volume, Materials, the editors survey the critical reception of Chesnutt's works in his lifetime and after, along with the biographical, critical, and archival texts available to teachers and students. The essays in part 2, Approaches, address such topics in teaching Chesnutt as his use of dialect, the role of intertextuality and genre in his writing, irony, and his treatment of race, economics, and social justice.

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ISBN 13	9780988316508
ISBN 10	0988316501
Title	Our Generation: Adventures at Shelby Stables
Author	Julie Driscoll
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Binding Type	Hardback
Year published	2012-01-01
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