Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels

Index

African Americans, stereotypes of, 10–12 Ames, Russell, 167n17, 172n12 Ammons, Elizabeth, 20–21, 167n17 Andrews, William L., 4–5, 15, 25, 58, 59, 67, 74, 84, 113, 115, 116, 132, 166n10, 167n17, 2, 168n4, 174n1 Austen, Jane, 42 Baker, Houston A., Jr., 57–58, 74, 171n2 Bakhtin, Mikhail M., 21, 84, 127–128, 147, 163 Barthes, Roland, 167n16 Bender, Bert, 166n5 Blake, Susan L., 180n19, 20 Boeckmann, Cathy, 7, 9–10, 20, 52, 71, 166n5, 167n17, 171n1, 172n11 Bond, Horace Mann, 119 Bone, Robert, 7 Borus, Daniel H., 89 Bourdieu, Pierre, 182n10 Browning, Robert, 157 Brown, Sterling, 56–57 Brown, William M., 87 Bruce, Dickson D., Jr., 181n1 Business Career, A, 23–25, 26–32, 34, 37, 38, 39, 41, 46, 47–48, 50, 54–55, 168n5, 7 Cable, George Washington, 12, 16, 67, 106, 166n6 Callahan, Cynthia A., 161 capitalism, Chesnutt’s critique of, 6, 17, 49, 79, 82, 123–25, 127 Carby, Hazel V., 178n5 Chesnutt, Charles W.: composition process , 169n10; contributions to realist movement, 2–3, 11, 13, 19–20, 84; pursuit of literary success, 10–11, 17, 57, 150–51; racial identity, 1, 12, 77, 173n17; rejection of novels, 1, 23, 25. See also speci¤c titles Chesnutt, Helen, 24, 184n18 Cohen, William, 180n17 coincidence, Chesnutt’s use of, 44–45 Colonel’s Dream, The, 5–6, 25, 82, 113–30, 173n15 Conjure Woman, The, 14, 24 195 Index
Crane, Stephen, 9 Crisler, Jesse, 168n4, 180n15 Damnation of Theron Ware, The (Frederic), 27, 169n14 Davis, John P., 34 Davis, Rebecca Harding, 14 “Deep Sleeper, A,” 171–72n5 Delmar, P. Jay, 45 Demirtürk, Lâle, 178n5, 178n7 Derrida, Jacques, 74 dialect, Chesnutt’s use of, 48–49, 170n20 Dixon, Thomas, 9, 90 Douglass, Frederick, 175n5 Dreiser, Theodore, 113; Sister Carrie, 27, 41 Du Bois, W. E. B., 18, 22, 113, 132, 142, 183n17 Dumas, Alexandre, 157 Dunbar-Nelson, Alice, 22 Duncan, Charles, 102, 171n1 Edwards, H. S., 166n6 Elliott, Michael A., 166n5 Ellison, Ralph, 1, 55 eugenics, 145–46, 154–56, 158–60 166n11. See also heredity, Chesnutt’s views on Evelyn’s Husband, 23, 25, 37–46, 47, 52–55, 167n2, 169n12, 15, 171n23 Exemplary Citizen, An, 4, 87, 167n1, 173n14 Faulkner, William, 74, 172n12 Ferguson, SallyAnn H., 72–73, 85, 166n11, 171n1 Fiedler, Leslie, 7 Finseth, Ian, 91, 95, 97 Fleming, Robert E., 135 “fool” (literary device), 127–28 Fool’s Errand, A (Tourgée), 10, 88, 127 Foucault, Michel, 140 “Future American, The,” 54, 72–73, 82 Galton, Francis, 154–156, 158 Garland, Hamlin, 4, 22, 154 Garrison, William Lloyd, 8 Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 7, 173n19, 176n10 Geertz, Clifford, 137 Gilder, Richard Watson, 16–17, 66 Gillman, Susan, 96 Glover, Katherine, 107 Habegger, Alfred, 5, 28, 161 Hackenberry, Charles, 58–60, 171n3 Hansberry, Lorraine, 110 Haraway, Donna, 154 Hardwig, Bill, 176n9 Harlem Renaissance, 46, 131–32, 136, 142 Harper, Frances, 22 Harris, Trudier, 70, 171n1 Hattenhauer, Darryl, 68, 70–71, 171n1, 173n16 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 74 Heermance, J. Noel, 181n1 Heredity, Chesnutt’s views on, 53–54, 168n5, 169n12. See also eugenics Hopkins, Pauline, 22 Hossfeld, Leslie H., 88 House Behind the Cedars, The, 5, 13, 20, 23, 25, 32, 36, 45, 47, 52–53, 54, 65–86, 88, 91, 132, 162; compared to The Colonel ’s Dream, 119, 124, 130, 179n12; compared to Mandy Oxendine, 57–58, 59, 65, 75; compared to “Rena Walden,” 17, 66–69 and “tragic mulatta” conventions , 5, 9, 57–58, 83–84 “How Dadsy Came Through,” 166n6 Howells, William Dean, 9, 11–12, 34, 42, 89, 97, 165n3; as exemplary realist, 2, 21, 32, 104, 106; An Imperative Duty, 13, 33, 51–52, 170n22, 172n10; reviews of Chesnutt’s ¤ction, 13, 17, 99, 165n2; The Rise of Silas Lapham, 27, 165n3 Hughes, Langston, 142 Hurston, Zora Neale, 1, 174n20; Seraph on the Suwanee, 47, 116 Imperative Duty, An (Howells), 13, 33, 51– 52, 170n22, 172n10 James, Henry, 8, 14, 21, 32, 104 Jameson, Fredric, 167n16, 176n11 Johnson, James Weldon, 9, 22, 174n4 Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt, The, 10–11, 172n13, 173n17, 177n14
index 196 Kaplan, Amy, 4, 176n11 Kearns, Katherine, 3, 7 Keller, Frances Richardson, 24–25, 115, 167n1 Knadler, Stephen P., 82, 165n1 Leitz, III, Robert C., 168n4, 180n15 “Literature in Its Relation to Life,” 87 Lubiano, Wahneema, 20–21 Malcolm X, 113 Mandy Oxendine, 5, 19, 23, 54, 57, 58–65, 75, 167n2, 171n3 Manly, Alexander, 88 Marrow of Tradition, The, 1, 3, 5, 6–7, 15– 16, 25, 27, 32, 48, 86...