The Marrow of Tradition (A Bedford Cultural Edition)
Contributors: Nancy Bentley (Editor); Sandra Gunning (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 3, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780312294342
Subjects: American - Southern; Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations; Discrimination & Racism; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism
First sentence: Though only a twenty-three-year-old African American school principal in Fayetteville, North Carolina, when he made these journal entries, Charles Waddell Chesnutt was indeed destined to claim for himself the title of "author."