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Charles Chesnutt’s Dilemma: Professional Ethics, Social Justice, and Domestic Feminism in The Marrow of Tradition

Charles Chesnutt’s Dilemma: Professional Ethics, Social Justice, and Domestic Feminism in The... : Professional Ethics, Social Justice, and Domestic Feminism in The Marrow of Tradition by Susan Danielson Only the Black Woman can say `when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.' -- Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South Over the past decade there has been an explosion of interest in Charles Chesnutt's work, reclaiming his multifaceted narratives and stunning stylistic strategies as he strove to give voice to black aspirations in an increasingly segregated America. Unlike his earlier dialect tales, which were enthusiastically reviewed in the white press, The Marrow of Tradition, his 1901 novel known to be a fictional recreation of the Wilmington, North Carolina race riot of 1898 in which at least nineteen black men and women were murdered, received only a lukewarm response at its publication.1 William Dean Howells called it a "bitter, bitter" book and others commented on its lack of artistry (Pickens 49, 82). Recent criticism, however, has reclaimed and reevaluated the novel, giving particular attention to the stylistic inventiveness of one of its several plots, and exploring the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

Charles Chesnutt’s Dilemma: Professional Ethics, Social Justice, and Domestic Feminism in The Marrow of Tradition

The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 41 (1) – Feb 12, 2009

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University of North Carolina Press
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Copyright © 2009 Department of English and Comparative Literature of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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: Professional Ethics, Social Justice, and Domestic Feminism in The Marrow of Tradition by Susan Danielson Only the Black Woman can say `when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.' -- Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South Over the past decade there has been an explosion of interest in Charles Chesnutt's work, reclaiming his multifaceted narratives and stunning stylistic strategies as he strove to give voice to black aspirations in an increasingly segregated America. Unlike his earlier dialect tales, which were enthusiastically reviewed in the white press, The Marrow of Tradition, his 1901 novel known to be a fictional recreation of the Wilmington, North Carolina race riot of 1898 in which at least nineteen black men and women were murdered, received only a lukewarm response at its publication.1 William Dean Howells called it a "bitter, bitter" book and others commented on its lack of artistry (Pickens 49, 82). Recent criticism, however, has reclaimed and reevaluated the novel, giving particular attention to the stylistic inventiveness of one of its several plots, and exploring the

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The Southern Literary JournalUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Feb 12, 2009

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