Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-254) and index.
Contents
Preface -- Chesnutt's Language / Language's Chesnutt -- Chesnutt in His Journals: "Nigger" under Erasure -- "The Future American" and "Chas. Chesnutt" -- Black Vernacular in Chesnutt's Short Fiction: "A New School of Literature" -- The Julius and John Stories: "The Luscious Scuppernong" -- Race in Chesnutt's Short Fiction: The "Line" and the "Web" -- Mandy Oxendine: "Is You a Rale Black Man?" -- The House behind the Cedars: "Creatures of Our Creation" -- The Marrow of Tradition: "The Very Breath of His Nostrils" -- The Colonel's Dream: "Sho Would 'a' Be'n a 'Ristocrat" -- Paul Marchand, F.M.C.: "F.M.C." and "C.W.C." -- The Quarry: "And Not the Hawk" -- Notes Bibliography Index.