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Charles W. Chesnutt and the Anti-Imperialist Matrix of African-American Writing, 1898-1905.(Critical Essay)
From: Criticism
Date: 19990922
Author:WEGENER, FREDERICK
IN 1900, SOON AFTER his two volumes of innovative shorter fiction had earned him some modest authority as a significant new literary presence among African Americans, Charles W Chesnutt undertook a three-part series of essays devoted to exploring what he called "our conception of a future American ethnic type."(1) According to the initial essay in the series, "The conception of a pure Aryan, Indo-European race has been abandoned in scientific circles, and the secret of the progress of Europe has been found in racial heterogeneity, rather than in racial purity," a shift on the ...
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