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Who has the right to say? Charles W. Chesnutt, whiteness, and the public sphere.
From: College Literature
Date: 19990322
Author:Wilson, Matthew
Charles W. Chesnutt's dilemma as a writer and as an African-American public intellectual is behind his failure to continue publishing after 1905. He was heavily influenced by the Euro-American intellectual tradition and believed in Enlightenment ideals of the public sphere, where uncoerced civic debate was possible. His models in this tradition were Harriet Beecher Stowe and Albion Tourgee, white writers on race issues with commercially successful race problem novels. However, Chesnutt was aware that his writing was received differently from that of his white contemporaries and that his ...
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