In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

Contents  Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Of Race and Realism 1 1. Learning to Be a Realist: Chesnutt’s Northern Novels 23 2. Time Passing: Chesnutt’s Revisions of the “Tragic Mulatta” Tale 56 3. Simple and Complex Discourse in The Marrow of Tradition 87 4. The Colonel’s Dream: Reconsidering a Radical Text 113 5. “The Category of Surreptitious Things”: Paul Marchand, F.M.C. and The Quarry 131 Notes 165 Works Cited 187 Index 195 v ...

Share