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Professor examines race in African American's novels

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From: Sunday News Lancaster, PA
Date: 20050109
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Race played an important role in late 19th-century American fiction, says Penn State Harrisburg faculty member Matthew Wilson of Bainbridge. He illustrates this in "Whiteness in the Novels of Charles W. Chesnutt," his study of the works of the acclaimed African- American author who lived from 1848 to 1932.

Wilson, an associate professor of humanities and writing, has written this examination of race and audience in Chesnutt's writings, focused on the three novels published in Chesnutt's lifetime ("The House Behind the Cedars," "The Marrow of Tradition," and "The Colonel's Dream"), as well his ...

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