Table of Contents:
  • 1. Chesnutt's Language / Language's Chesnutt i
  • 2. Chesnutt in His Journals: "Nigger" under Erasure
  • 3. "The Future American" and "Chas. Chesnutt"
  • 4. Black Vernacular in Chesnutt's Short Fiction: A New School of Literature"
  • 5. The Julius and John Stories: "The Luscious Scuppernong"
  • 6. Race in Chesnutt's Short Fiction: The "Line" and the "Web"
  • 7. Mandy Oxendine: "Is You a Rale Black Man?"
  • 8. The House behind the Cedars: "Creatures of Our Creation"
  • 9. The Marrow of Tradition: "The Very Breath of His Nostrils"
  • 10. The Colonel'sDream: "Sho Would 'a' Be'n a 'Ristocrat"
  • 11. PaulMarchand, F.C.: "EM.C." and "C.W.C."
  • 12. TheQuarry: "And Not the Hawk".