{"product_id":"the-marrow-of-tradition-9780393934144","title":"The Marrow of Tradition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Critical Edition of this hugely influential novel gives readers the fullest possible sense of its historical background and critical assessment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Werner Sollors\u003cbr\u003eCharles W. Chesnutt's Own View of His New Story, \u003ci\u003eThe Marrow of Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e (1901)\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cp\u003eThe Text of \u003ci\u003eThe Marrow of Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContexts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFAMILY BACKGROUND\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrances Richardson Keller o [Chesnutt's Parents]\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSELECTED LETTERS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Walter Hines Page, Nov. 11, 1898\u003cbr\u003eTo Walter Hines Page, Mar. 22, 1899\u003cbr\u003eTo Booker T. Washington, Oct. 8, 1901\u003cbr\u003eTo Houghton, Mifflin \u0026amp; Co., Oct. 26, 1901\u003cbr\u003eFrom Booker T. Washington, Oct. 28, 1901\u003cbr\u003eTo Booker T. Washington, Nov. 16, 1901\u003cbr\u003eTo Houghton, Mifflin \u0026amp; Co., Dec. 30, 1901\u003cbr\u003eTo William Monroe Trotter [Jan. 1902]\u003cbr\u003eFrom W. E. B. Du Bois to Houghton Mifflin, Mar. 8, 1902\u003cbr\u003eTo Mrs. W. B. Henderson, Nov. 11, 1905\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLITERARY MEMORANDA\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles W. Chesnutt o [Plot Notes] \u003cbr\u003eSample Pages from Chesnutt's Hand-Corrected Proof Sheets of \u003ci\u003eThe Marrow of Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eESSAYS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e The Courts and the Negro\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e What Is a White Man?\u003cbr\u003eThe White and the Black\u003cbr\u003eThe Disfranchisement of the Negro\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTHE 1898 WILMINGTON RIOT\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRebecca Latimer Felton, Alexander L. Manly, and the \u003ci\u003eDaily Record\u003c\/i\u003e Editorial\u003cbr\u003eJohn E. Talmadge o [Biographical Sketch of Mrs. Felton]\u003cbr\u003eRebecca Latimer Felton o Mrs. Felton Speaks \u003cbr\u003eBiographical Sketch of Alex Manly \u003cbr\u003eAlex Manly o Editorial \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Cause of Carolina Riots\u003cbr\u003eThe North Carolina Race Conflict\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Takes Mrs. Felton to Task for Speech\u003cbr\u003eMrs. W. H. Felton's Reply to Dr. Hawthorne's Attack\u003cbr\u003eNov. 10, 1898: A Day of Blood \u003cbr\u003eNorth Carolina Department of Cultural Resources o Wilmington Race Riot Draft Report\u003cbr\u003e1898 Wilmington Riot Commission o Findings\u003cbr\u003eHell Jolted Loose \u003cbr\u003eWhite Declaration of Independence Negro Rule Ended, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e (Nov. 11, 1898) \u003cbr\u003eThe Riot at Wilmington, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e (Nov. 22, 1898) \u003cbr\u003eA Forgotten Issue, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e (Nov. 20, 1898) \u003cbr\u003eIs It Negro Rule? \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e (Nov. 24, 1898) \u003cbr\u003eThe South and Negro Suffrage, \u003ci\u003eNew-York Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e (Nov. 25, 1898) \u003cbr\u003ePortrait of Alfred Moore Waddell \u003cbr\u003eAlfred Moore Waddell o The Story of the Wilmington, N.C., Race Riot, \u003ci\u003eCollier's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (Nov. 26, 1898) \u003cbr\u003eBlack Side of the Race Issue, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e (Dec. 4, 1898) \u003cbr\u003eThe Wilmington Riot, \u003ci\u003eCleveland Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e (Dec. 10, 1898)\u003cbr\u003eLetter by a Negro Woman to President William McKinley (Nov. 13, 1898) \u003cbr\u003eAfrican Americans Killed or Wounded \u003cbr\u003eMen Banished from Wilmington during and after the November 10 Violence \u003cbr\u003eThe Wilmington Riot, Chesnutt's Relatives, and African American Fiction \u003cbr\u003eSylvia Lyons Render o [\u003ci\u003eViolence\u003c\/i\u003e]\u003cbr\u003eRichard Yarborough o Violence, Manhood, and Black Heroism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTHE CAKEWALK\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSheet Music from the 1890s \u003cbr\u003eDusky Dinah: Cake-Walk and Patrol\u003cbr\u003eSambo at the Cake Walk \u003cbr\u003eRemus Takes the Cake \u003cbr\u003eWay Down South: Characteristic March, Cake-Walk and Two-Step\u003cbr\u003eCakewalk in the Contemporary Press \u003cbr\u003eA Negro Festival, \u003ci\u003eNew-York Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e (July 20, 1870) \u003cbr\u003eA Cake Walk, \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e (Oct. 6, 1873) \u003cbr\u003eH. S. Keller o The Cake Walk,\" \u003ci\u003ePuck\u003c\/i\u003e (Sept. 7, 1887) \u003cbr\u003eThey Walked for a Cake and Glory, \u003ci\u003eChicago Daily Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e (Feb. 18, 1892) \u003cbr\u003eThe Cake Walk, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e (Feb. 18, 1892) \u003cbr\u003eTook the Cake, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e (Aug. 23, 1892)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCRITICISM\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSELECTED CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS AND EARLY ASSESSMENTS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Race Question in Fiction, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Herald\u003c\/i\u003e [Boston] (Oct. 27, 1901)\u003cbr\u003eHamilton Wright Mabie o The New Books, \u003ci\u003eThe Outlook\u003c\/i\u003e (Nov. 16, 1901)\u003cbr\u003eOur Holiday Book Table, \u003ci\u003eZion's Herald\u003c\/i\u003e (Dec. 4, 1901)\u003cbr\u003eMr. Chesnutt's Marrow of Tradition, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e (Dec. 7, 1901)\u003cbr\u003eA New Uncle Tom's Cabin, \u003ci\u003eSt. Paul Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e (Dec. 14, 1901)\u003cbr\u003eKatherine Glover o News in the World of Books, \u003ci\u003eAtlanta Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (Dec. 14, 1901) \u003cbr\u003eCharles Alexander o Our Journalist and Literary Folks, \u003ci\u003eThe Freeman\u003c\/i\u003e [Indianapolis] (Dec. 28, 1901) \u003cbr\u003eMr. Chesnutt and the Negro Problem, \u003ci\u003eNewark Sunday News.\u003c\/i\u003e (Dec. 29, 1901) \u003cbr\u003eA. E. H. o Fiction, \u003ci\u003eThe Chautauquan\u003c\/i\u003e (Dec. 1901)\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Dean Howells o From A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction, \u003ci\u003eNorth American Review\u003c\/i\u003e (Dec. 1901) \u003cbr\u003eT. Thomas Fortune o Note and Comment, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Age\u003c\/i\u003e (July 20, 1905)\u003cbr\u003eSterling A. Brown, Arthur P. Davis, and Ulysses Lee o [Racial Conflict in Fiction]\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRECEPTION\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSylvia Lyons Render o \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Charles W. Chesnutt \u003cbr\u003eWilliam L. Andrews o \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHARACTERS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Edgar Wideman o Charles W. Chesnutt: \u003ci\u003eThe Marrow of Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eP. Jay Delmar o Character and Structure in \u003ci\u003eThe Marrow of Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErnestine Williams Pickens o White Supremacy and Southern Reform Samina Najmi o From Janet, Polly, and Olivia: Constructs of Blackness and White Femininity in \u003ci\u003eThe Marrow of Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJUNGIAN AND FOUCAULDIAN APPROACHES\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarjorie George and Richard S. Pressman o From Confronting the Shadow: Psycho-Political Repression in \u003ci\u003eThe Marrow of Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRyan Jay Friedman o \u003ci\u003eFrom \"Between Absorption and Extinction\": Charles Chesnutt and Biopolitical Racism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePLESSY V. FERGUSON AND THE MARROW OF TRADITION\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eU.S. Supreme Court o \u003ci\u003ePlessy v. Ferguson\u003c\/i\u003e, 163 U. S. 537 (1896) \u003cbr\u003eBrook Thomas o The Legal Argument of Charles W. Chesnutt's Novels\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTHE MARROW OF TRADITION AND HISTORY\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoyce Pettis o The Literary Imagination and the Historic Event: Chesnutt's Use of History in \u003ci\u003eThe Marrow of Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJae H. Roe o From Keeping an \"Old Wound\" Alive: \u003ci\u003eThe Marrow of Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e and the Legacy of Wilmington \u003cbr\u003eEric Sundquist o \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Charles Chesnutt's Cakewalk\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eREALISM, TRAGIC MULATTO, VIOLENCE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRyan Simmons o \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Simple and Complex Discourse in \u003ci\u003eThe Marrow of Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen P. Knadler o \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Untragic Mulatto: Charles Chesnutt and the Discourse of Whiteness \u003cbr\u003eBryan Wagner o Charles Chesnutt and the Epistemology of Racial Violence\u003cbr\u003eCharles W. Chesnutt: A Chronology\u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402032521559,"sku":"9780393934144","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393934144.jpg?v=1730479201","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-marrow-of-tradition-9780393934144","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}