By Charles W. Chesnutt
Though he completed literary good fortune in his time, Chesnutt has only in the near past been rediscovered and his contribution to American literature given its due. the single recognized inner most diary from a nineteenth-century African American writer, those pages supply a desirable glimpse into Chesnutt's daily adventure as he struggled to win the products of schooling on this planet of the post-Civil battle South. a rare portrait of the self-made guy beset by means of the urgencies and problems of self-improvement in a racially discriminatory society, Chesnutt's journals spread a richly certain neighborhood background of postwar North Carolina. in addition they convey with nice strength how the realm of the postwar South obstructed--and, without notice, assisted--a black guy of riding highbrow ambitions.
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