"A living death": gothic signification and the nadir in The Marrow of Tradition.(Charles W. Chesnutt)(Critical Essay)
From: MELUS
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Date: 12/22/2002
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Author: Ianovici, Gerald
In his letter to Walter Hines Page dated 22 March 1899, Charles W. Chesnutt expressed dismay at the steady erosion of blacks' civil rights in turn-of-the-century America. Referring specifically to North Carolina's adoption of the "grandfather" clause that had been used to disenfranchise black male residents of several southern states, a law the Supreme Court upheld in Williams v. Mississippi (1898), Chesnutt worried about the growing hostilities confronting black Americans. In ...
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