The Northern Stories of Charles W. Chesnutt by Charles W Chesnutt PAPERBACK

The Northern Stories of Charles W. ChesnuttAuthor(s): Charles W. Chesnutt, Charles Duncan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Ohio University Press, United States\nImprint: Ohio University Press\nISBN-13: 9780821415436, 978-0821415436\nSynopsis\nThe first African American fiction writer to earn a national reputation, Charles W. Chesnutt remains best known for his depictions of Southern life before and after the Civil War. But he also produced a large body of what might best be called his \""Northern\"" writings, and those works, taken together, describe the intriguing ways in which America was reshaping itself at the turn of the last century.\n The Northern Stories of Charles W. Chesnutt collects for the first time eighteen Chesnutt storiesseveral of them first appearing in Northern magazines or newspapersthat portray life in the North in the period between the Civil War and World War I. Living in Ohio from 1883 until his death in 1932, Chesnutt witnessed and wrote about the social, cultura.