Page Links: | Primary Works | Selected Bibliography | Study Questions | MLA Style Citation of this Web Page |

Site Links: | Chap 6: Index | Alphabetical List | Table Of Contents | PAL Home |

(Source: Charles W. Chesnutt)

 

Primary Works

"The Goophered Grapevine" (E-Text), 1887; "Po' Sandy" (E-Text), 1888; The Cojure Woman, 1899; The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line (E-Text), 1899; "The Bouquet" (E-Text), 1899; "Dave's Neckliss" (E-Text), 1899; "Hot-Foot Hannibal" (E-Text), 1899; The House Behind the Cedars (E-Text), 1900; The Marrow of Tradition, 1901; The Colonel's Dream, 1905.

| Top | Selected Bibliography

Andrews, William L. The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt. 1980.

Chesnutt, Helen M. Charles Waddell Chesnutt: Pioneer of the Color Line. 1952.

Ellison, Curtis W., and E. W. Metcalf. eds. Charles W. Chesnutt a reference guide. Boston: G. K. Hall1977. Z8166.2 E44

Heermance, J. Noel. Charles W. Chesnutt; America's first great Black novelist. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1974. PS1292 C6 Z7

Keller, Frances R. An American Crusade: The Life of Charles Waddell Chesnutt. 1978.

McFatter, Susan. "From Revenge to Resolution: The (R)Evolution of Female Characters in Chesnutt's Fiction." CLA Journal 42.2 (Dec 1998): 194-212.

Render, Sylvia L. Charles W. Chesnutt. Boston: Twayne, 1980. PS1292.C6 Z85

Wonham, Henry B. "Plenty of Room for Us All? Participation and Prejudice in Charles Chesnutt's Dialect Tales." Studies in american fiction 26.2 (Fall 1998): 131-47.

| Top | Study Questions

1. Explore the way in which Chesnutt manipulates point of view in The Goophered Grapevine and the effect this has on the story's ending.

2. Read the anthologized "Uncle Remus" stories by Joel Chandler Harris. Compare and contrast Chesnutt's use of the folk tale and the folk narrator with that of Harris.

3. Compare and contrast Irving's use of folk materials early in the nineteenth century with Chesnutt's use of folk materials in The Goophered Grapevine.

4. While almost all of the writers in the genre of regionalism were women, Charles Chesnutt uses elements of regionalism in The Goophered Grapevine. With references to anthologized works by Stowe, Jewett, Freeman, Chopin, Austin, Oskison, and Bonnin, analyze Chesnutt as a regionalist writer.

MLA Style Citation of this Web Page

Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 6: Late Nineteenth Century - Charles W. Chesnutt." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. URL:http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap6/chesnutt.html (provide page date or date of your login).   

| Top |Back | Chap 6 | Alphabetical List | Contents | PAL Home | Literature | Home |