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	Charles Chesnutt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 15, 1932) was an African American author.
		In its style, setting in the pre-war plantations of the South, and its use of dialect, the book is reminiscent of the works of Joel Chandler Harris, but Chesnutt differs from Harris in his scathing attacks on the institution of slavery.
		Charles Waddell Chesnutt died in 1932 and was interred in Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Chesnutt (283 words)

	AFRO-AMERICAN ALMANAC - African-American History Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		CHARLES W. Charles Waddell Chesnutt was born to free fls Andrew Jackson Chesnutt and Anne Maria Sampson, in Cleveland, Ohio, on 20 June 1858.
		Chesnutt's parents had recently emigrated from Fayetteville, N.C. After the Civil War, when he was eight years old, Chesnutt's parents returned to Fayetteville, where Charles worked part-time in the family grocery store and attended a school founded by the Freedmen's Bureau.
		Chesnutt's African heritage, however, remained a quiet secret even though he made it clear to his editors in 1891; most readers assumed he was white.
	www.toptags.com /aama/bio/men/cwchessnut.htm (577 words)

	Charles W. Chesnutt
		Charles W. Chesnutt is not an exception, and his novels reveal the harsh world of prejudice and social indifference in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
		Charles W. Chesnutt was born June 20, 1858, in Cleveland Ohio, the eldest child of Andrew Jackson Chesnutt and Anne Maria Sampson, free fls from North Carolina.
		Charles Chesnutt's family heritage gave him the features that barely distinguished him from whites, but determined his social status as lower than that of the white Americans.
	faculty.berea.edu /browners/chesnutt/biography/biography.html (1483 words)

	MSN Encarta - Chesnutt, Charles Waddell
		Chesnutt, Charles Waddell (1858-1932), American novelist and short-story writer, regarded as one of the most accomplished late-19th-century American writers of fiction.
		Chesnutt was born in Cleveland, Ohio, where his family had moved in the 1850s to escape racial persecution in the South.
		Chesnutt's use of irony and humor in these works prevented the alienation of white readers.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579627/Chesnutt_Charles_Waddell.html (360 words)

	Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt - African-American Fiction
		Profoundly aware of the delicacy of his situation as a fl intellectual at the turn of the century, Chesnutt infused his work with an intricate, enigmatic artistic vision that defies monolithic or unambiguously political interpretation, especially with regard to issues of race and identity that preoccupied him throughout his career.
		Trapped in the dialect tradition that broke the spirit of his fellow Buckeye Paul Laurence Dunbar, Chesnutt, especially in his short fiction, "skillfully disguises those trenchant interrogations" of the social text called America; nevertheless, he illuminates the diversity and depth of meaning conveyed in a dialect tradition that hides as it reveals.
		Writing on the "color line" in his fiction, Chesnutt himself, light-skinned enough to pass, dissembled, used indirection, and wore the mask to articulate what it meant to be fl and male at the turn of the twentieth.
	www.ohiou.edu /oupress/absentman.htm (806 words)

	Charles W. Chesnutt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Chesnutt attended a school funded by the Freedman's Bureau, and then worked as a teacher and eventually as a school principal in Charlotte and in Fayetteville.
		Chesnutt's work dealt primarily with the South, and especially with themes of interracial sex and the phenomenon of people legally defined as "fl" whose relatively light skin color enabled them to "pass" as "white." Chesnutt met with much praise for his early stories, but his powerful and controversial novels met with steadily diminishing readerships.
		Chesnutt wrote powerful essays on the political and economic exploitation of Southern fls and served as a member of the General Committee of the NAACP, making him one of the most important commentators on racial issues in the early twentieth century, along with men such as
	www.virginia.edu /history/courses/courses.old/hius323/chesnutt.html (336 words)

	Charles Wadell Chesnutt
		Charles Chesnutt was a stand out writer of short fiction from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century.
		Chesnutt was born in Cleveland, Ohio on June 20, 1858 the first son of Andrew “Jack” and Ann Maria Chesnutt.
		Charles, at fourteen took a job as a pupil- teacher at Howard School and began furthering his self-educating as well.
	www.etsu.edu /writing/studentsamlit/chesnutt.htm (2340 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Chesnutt says he has no white friends ("any man who feels himself too good to sit at table with me" is no friend) and is stung by the prejudice that can frustrate his ambitions ("first class teachers would not teach a 'nigger' and I would have no other sort").
		A volume of Chesnutt's stories, The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales (edited and with a foreword by Richard H. Brodhead; $12.95 ISBN 0-8223-1387-1; cloth $34.95 -1378-2) will also be published by Duke in December; this edition reassembles all of Chesnutt's* work in the conjure tale genre.
		Chesnutt's journals (1871-82) give the reader a vivid view of what an educated fl man endured in a racially discriminatory society.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0822313790 (449 words)

	Heath Anthology of American LiteratureCharles Waddell Chesnutt - Author Page
		Charles W. Chesnutt was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of free fls who had emigrated from Fayetteville, N.C. When he was eight years old, his parents returned to Fayetteville, where Charles worked in the family grocery store and attended a school founded by the Freedmen's Bureau.
		Typical of Chesnutt's interest in life on the color line in the North is "A Matter of Principle," a satiric study of racial prejudice within the light-skinned, aspiring fl middle class of Cleveland.
		During the later years of his life Chesnutt continued to write and publish occasional short stories, but he was largely eclipsed in the 1920s by the writers of the New Negro Renaissance.
	college.hmco.com /english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/late_nineteenth/chesnutt_ch.html (955 words)

	The Anger and the Irony
		Although his formal education was limited, Chesnutt was a passionate adherent to the Victorian creed of "self-culture," and taught himself Latin, German, music, history, literature, and law.
		Chesnutt is so sophisticated rhetorically that it is difficult sometimes to tell what side he is coming down on." Mr.
		"Chesnutt creates these situations in which identity is put on trial, with the whole system of law being perversely turned into inescapable punishment, rather than a protection of right," he says.
	usinfo.state.gov /usa/blackhis/mclemee.htm (1893 words)

	Chesnutt, Charles Waddell on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Charles W. Chesnutt, whiteness, and the public sphere.
		CHARLES W. CHESNUTT, THE CONJURE WOMAN, AND THE RACIAL LIMITS OF LITERARY MEDIATION.(Critical Essay)
		"The curious psychological spectacle of a mind enslaved": Charles W. Chesnutt and dialect fiction.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Chesnutt.asp (473 words)

	Charles Chesnutt -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 15, 1932) was an (additional info and facts about African American) African American author.
		In its style, setting in the pre-war plantations of the South, and its use of dialect, the book is reminiscent of the works of (additional info and facts about Joel Chandler Harris) Joel Chandler Harris, but Chesnutt differs from Harris in his scathing attacks on the institution of slavery.
		He continued writing short stories (The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line; 1899), and a biography of (United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)) Frederick Douglass.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/charles_chesnutt.htm (257 words)

	The Literary voice of Charles W. Chesnutt
		Called an innovator and commentator Charles W. Chesnutt's literary voice during 1899 – 1905 was the lone African American heard and approved by the white ruled publishing industry.
		In this group of pupils, the most admired by Mary was Sophy Tucker neither the brightest nor the whitest actually she was one of the darkest of the pupils, Sophy was however devoted to her teacher.
		Chesnutt writes in "The Bouquet", an unconventional love story between two people, one white and one fl.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/african_american_lit_retired/66797 (462 words)

	Charles W. Chesnutt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Chesnutt's work deals primarily with the South, and especially with themes of interracial sex and racial ambiguity.
		Chesnutt met with much praise for his early stories, but as he aged, his work became more controversial and less popular.
		Even though Chesnutt is now considered to be a minor American writer, he is important as a pioneer and a role model for many Black writers who later came to prominence during the Harlmen Renaissance.
	www.pitt.edu /~atteberr/lit/570/artists/chesnutt/chesnutt.html (194 words)

	Charles W. Chesnutt
		Indeed, Chesnutt stands virtually alone as the first African American chronicler of Northern culture, anticipating such figures as James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison.
		Ohio author Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) published three novels, two collections of short stories, a biography of Frederick Douglass, and dozens of short stories and essays in prestigious magazines of his day.
		Called a "race riot" by the inflammatory Southern press and engineered by white Democrats who had seen their political slip into the hands of Republicans, many of whom were fl, it was in fact a coup that restored power to the Democrats by subverting the principles of free democratic election.
	aalbc.com /authors/charlesw.htm (655 words)

	The Northern Stories of Charles Chesnutt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Chesnutt's "North" was a place where former slaves could shed their pain-filled lives and reinvent themselves with hard work and determination.
		Chesnutt gained fame as the first great fl novelist for "The Marrow of Tradition" and "The House Behind the Cedars".
		Readers interested in the evolution and intransigence of American social relations will find "The Northern Stories of Charles W. Chesnutt" to be both satisfying and confounding, for unfortunately, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
	reviews.aalbc.com /northernstoriescharleschestnutt.htm (591 words)

	Charles W. Chesnutt -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Chesnutt was the son of free fls who had left their native city of Fayetteville, N.C., prior to the American Civil War.
		Charles was brought up by his mother and grandfather, Robert the Frisian, on whose death he did great services to his uncle,...
		Moore, Charles W. architect, born in Benton Harbor, Mich.; graduated University of Michigan 1947; studied at Princeton 1954–57; U.S. Army 1952–54 during Korean War; worked in several architectural firms, including his own company; taught architecture at University of Utah, Princeton (1957–65), University of California at Berkeley (1965–75), and Yale University from 1975;...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9023878?tocId=9023878&query=charles (594 words)

	Charles W. Chesnutt: Stories, Novels, and Essays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Chesnutt exposed the deformed logic of the Jim Crow system-creating, in the process, the modern African-American novel.
		Here is the best of Chesnutt's fiction and nonfiction in the largest and most comprehensive edition ever published, featuring a newly researched chronology of the writer's life.
		The Marrow of Tradition (1901), Chesnutt's masterpiece, is a powerful and bitter novel about the harsh reassertion of white dominance in a southern town at the end of the Reconstruction era.
	isbn.nu /1931082065 (541 words)

	Charles Waddell Chesnutt Biography / Biography of Charles Waddell Chesnutt Biography
		Charles Waddell Chesnutt was born June 20, 1858, in Cleveland, Ohio.
		Chesnutt's paternal grandfather provided property for his African American family members (Chesnutt's grandmother and her children).
		Chesnutt's grandmothers, Ann Chesnutt and Ch This is a free excerpt.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-charles-waddell-chesnutt (225 words)

	African American Registry: Charles W. Chesnutt, noted writer of fiction
		Chesnutt was born in Cleveland, Ohio but had little formal education and taught himself and received tutoring.
		In 1899 two collections of his short stories were published: “The Conjure Woman” and “The Wife of His Youth.” By the early 1900's, race relations in the United States had deteriorated and it was difficult for Chesnutt to earn a living from his writing.
		In the late 20th century, scholarly interest in Charles Waddell Chesnutt's writings was rekindled.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/241/Charles_W_Chesnutt_noted_writer_of_fiction (226 words)

	Charles W. Chesnutt: Selected Bibliography
		Andrews, William L. "Chesnutt's Patesville: The Presence and Influence of the Past in The House Behind the Cedars." College Language Association Journal 15 (1972): 284-94.
		Chesnutt, Charles W. "To Be an Author": Letters Of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1889-1905.
		"Charles Chesnutt and the WPA Narratives: The Oral and Literate Roots of Afro-American Literature." Davis, Charles T. (ed.); Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
	www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/chesbib.htm (3003 words)

	Alibris: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
		Chesnutt's story of two young African-American men who try to pass for white, written in the late 19th century, was ahead of its time.
		Charles Chesnutt wrote this novel at the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s.
		In a surprising plot reversal, Chesnutt deals with the subject of miscegenation, and his hero Paul Marchand is an admirable male with inner...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Charles_Waddell_Chesnutt (1247 words)

	Charles W. Chesnutt, Collection, 1942-1994 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Charles W. Chesnutt was born in Cleveland, Ohio, June 20, 1858.
		The family returned to North Carolina after the Civil War and that is where Chesnutt spent his much of his childhood.
		During this period Chesnutt was also seriously beginning his development as a writer.
	speccoll.library.kent.edu /literature/prose/chesnutt.html (214 words)

	Charles W. Chesnutt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Charles W. Chesnutt was the first fl fiction writer to earn the respect of white critics.
		Born to free fl parents living in North Carolina, Chesnutt worked as a teacher, school principal, newspaper reporter, accountant, and lawyer before he rose to literary fame in 1887 with his story The Goophered Grapevine.
		In 1928 Chesnutt was awarded a Spingarn Medal for his groundbreaking contribution to the depiction of the "life and struggle of Americans of Negro descent."
	www.wwnorton.com /college/english/naal5/explore/chesnutt.htm (384 words)

	Charles Waddell Chesnutt, 1858-1932 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During the latter years of his life Chesnutt continued to write and publish occasional short stories, but he was largely eclipsed in the 1920s by the writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
		Today Chesnutt is recognized as a major innovator in the tradition of Afro American fiction, an important contributor to the deromanticizing trend in post-Civil War southern literature and a singular voice among turn-of-the-century realists who treated the color line in American life.
		William L. Andrews, The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt (1980); Helen M. Chesnutt, Charles Waddell Chesnutt: Pioeer of the Color Line (1952); Frances Richardson Keller, An American Crusade: The Life of Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1978).
	docsouth.unc.edu /chesnuttcolonel/bio.html (600 words)

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		Chesnutt has practiced exclusively bankruptcy and bankruptcy related law since 1986.
		His practice consists primarily of business reorganization (Chapter 11) and complicated individual bankruptcies relating to business debt, tax debt, tax avoidance and debt settlements.
		Chesnutt is a qualified Chapter 11 Trustee in the Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas and also serves as elected Chapter 7 Trustee.
	www.chapter7-11.com (88 words)

	Charles Chesnutt - Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born Charles Waddell Chesnutt on June 20 in Cleveland, Ohio, the first child of Ann Maria (Sampson) Chesnutt and Andrew Jackson Chesnutt.
		1833, is the son of Anna M. Chesnutt, of mixed race, and probably Waddell Cade, a white landowner in Fayetteville.
		Chesnutt begins attending Howard School, public school for fl children built with Freedmen's Bureau funds on land purchased by his father and six other African-American men.
	www.loa.org /chesnutt/bio-chronology.jsp (696 words)

	Whiteness in the Novels of Charles W. Chesnutt
		Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), critically acclaimed for his novels, short stories, and essays, was one of the most ambitious and influential African American writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
		Examining the three published in Chesnutt's lifetime-The House Behind the Cedars, The Marrow of Tradition, and The Colonel's Dream-as well as his posthumously published novels, this study explores the dilemma of a fl writer who wrote primarily for a white audience.
		Wilson pays close attention to the genres in which Chesnutt was working and also to the social and historical context of the novels.
	www.upress.state.ms.us /catalog/fall2004/whiteness_novels_chessnut.html (351 words)

	Charles Chesnutt Literary Web: Enter Here (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932), is regarded as one of the most accomplished late-19th-century American writers of fiction, and was one of the best known and critically acclaimed African American writers of his day.
		Chenutt was an astute and nuanced chronicler of the aftermath of slavery in the south, and was particularly interested in the arbitrary yet powerful legal and social conventions of the "color line" separating fl from white.
		Increasingly alarmed by the rise of racial tensions and violence in the 1890's, Chesnutt hoped that his most ambitious novel, The Marrow of Tradition, would have an impact on the nation of the order of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
	www.eden.rutgers.edu /~c350445 (234 words)

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