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1 Charles Chesnutt By: Trishie Schweinfurth

2 Charles Chesnutt

3 Early Life

4 Marriage

5 Occupations

6 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

7 Chesnutt Quotes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZX0HU_J td0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZX0HU_J td0

8 Writing Career Stories Novels Essays Poems Other Works

9 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

10 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

11 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

12 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

13 Hope You All Learned a Bit! The End!

14 Works Cited http://www.chesnuttarchive.org/Works/works.html http://www.chesnuttarchive.org/Works/works.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Ches nutt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Ches nutt The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Second Edition

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