The Marrow of Tradition
The Norton Critical Edition of this hugely influential novel gives readers the fullest possible sense of its historical background and critical assessment.
The Norton Critical Edition of this hugely influential novel gives readers the fullest possible sense of its historical background and critical assessment.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140186864 (0140186867)
Publish date: February 1st 1993
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
American,
Historical Fiction,
African American,
College,
Race
This was a difficult book to read because it is such an honest depiction of racial inequality during the reconstruction of the south after the civil war. But I think it was my favorite among the books I've read by Chesnutt, for that very honesty.
Chesnutt was America's first successful black novelist. This book was written in 1901, and is based on an actual race riot that broke out in North Carolina a few years earlier. It's not nonfiction; it's a dramatization based on events leading up to and during the riot.Really good book. Chesnutt's st...
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