Charles W. Chesnutt: Stories, Novels, and Essays (LOA #131)
Chesnutt, Charles W.![Charles W. Chesnutt: Stories, Novels, and Essays (LOA #131)](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/962/9623186/CHSBZCOP039623186.jpg)
Rejecting his era's genteel hypocrisy about miscegenation, lynching, and "passing, " Charles W. Chesnutt broke new ground in American literature with his innovative explorations of racial identity and use of African-American speech and folklore. Chesnutt exposed the deformed logic of the Jim Crow system-creating, in the process, the modern African-American novel. Here is the best of Chesnutt's fiction and nonfiction in the largest and most com...