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Charles Chesnutt By: Trishie Schweinfurth

Charles Chesnutt

Early Life

Marriage

Occupations

Legal Career He moved back to Cleveland Passed the Ohio State Bar Test Became a legal stenographer – Stenographer: an individual who records court proceedings either in shorthand or through the use of a paper-punching device

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Writing Career Stories Novels Essays Poems Other Works

Most Famous Pieces From 1899 to 1905 he published two collections of short stories and 3 novels “The Goophered Grape-vine” – First important work of fiction “The Conjure Woman” Blend of realism and fantasy “The Passing of Grandison” Sentimental southern portrayals of master-slave relationships “The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line” Explored Moral Conflicts and psychological strains experienced by mixed-race people like himself

Most Famous Pieces Continued “The House Behind the Cedars” “The Marrow of Tradition” “The Colonel’s Dream” All 3 of these novels looked into racial problems and solutions in the South postwar – Social – Economic – Political

Accomplishments Most influential and widely respected African American fiction write in US National Association for the Advancement of Colored People awarded him Spingarn Medal Almost singlehandedly inaugurating a truly African American literary tradition in the short story

Favorite Piece “The Wife of His Youth” The Blue Veins – Little society of colored people organized in a certain Northern city after the war – For people whose social conditions needed a lot of improvement – Blacks and Whites were allowed in the club – Character and Culture only things considered

Hope You All Learned a Bit! The End!

Works Cited nutt nutt The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Second Edition

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