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Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels
From: Southern Quarterly
Date: 20080401
Author:Duncan, Charles
Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels. By Ryan Simmons. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. 198pp. Cloth: $39.95. ISBN 978-0817315209.)
Charles W. Chesnutt and his works have long confounded scholars who seek easy taxonomies of writers and their works. More than sixty years ago, for example, J. Saunders Redding asked, "What is Chesnutt's conviction as an artist? ... Of what is he trying to convince us? ... one always seems at the point of making a discovery about the author, but the discovery never matures."1 More recently, Joe McElrath and Robert Leitz ask even more ...
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