The marrow of tradition : authoritative text, contexts, criticism / created by Charles W. Chesnutt; edited by Werner Sollors

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction by Werner SollorsCharles W. Chesnutt's Own View of His New Story, The Marrow of Tradition (1901)Acknowledgments The Text of The Marrow of Tradition Contexts FAMILY BACKGROUND Frances Richardson Keller o [Chesnutt's Parents] SELECTED LETTERS To Walter Hines Page, Nov. 11, 1898To Walter Hines Page, Mar. 22, 1899To Booker T. Washington, Oct. 8, 1901To Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Oct. 26, 1901From Booker T. Washington, Oct. 28, 1901To Booker T. Washington, Nov. 16, 1901To Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Dec. 30, 1901To William Monroe Trotter [Jan. 1902]From W. E. B. Du Bois to Houghton Mifflin, Mar. 8, 1902To Mrs. W. B. Henderson, Nov. 11, 1905 LITERARY MEMORANDA Charles W. Chesnutt o [Plot Notes] Sample Pages from Chesnutt's Hand-Corrected Proof Sheets of The Marrow of Tradition ESSAYS From The Courts and the NegroFrom What Is a White Man?The White and the BlackThe Disfranchisement of the Negro THE 1898 WILMINGTON RIOT Rebecca Latimer Felton, Alexander L. Manly, and the Daily Record EditorialJohn E. Talmadge o [Biographical Sketch of Mrs. Felton]Rebecca Latimer Felton o Mrs. Felton Speaks Biographical Sketch of Alex Manly Alex Manly o Editorial From Cause of Carolina RiotsThe North Carolina Race ConflictFrom Takes Mrs. Felton to Task for SpeechMrs. W. H. Felton's Reply to Dr. Hawthorne's AttackNov. 10, 1898: A Day of Blood North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources o Wilmington Race Riot Draft Report1898 Wilmington Riot Commission o FindingsHell Jolted Loose White Declaration of Independence Negro Rule Ended, Washington Post (Nov. 11, 1898) The Riot at Wilmington, Washington Post (Nov. 22, 1898) A Forgotten Issue, Boston Globe (Nov. 20, 1898) Is It Negro Rule? Independent (Nov. 24, 1898) The South and Negro Suffrage, New-York Tribune (Nov. 25, 1898) Portrait of Alfred Moore Waddell Alfred Moore Waddell o The Story of the Wilmington, N.C., Race Riot, Collier's Weekly (Nov. 26, 1898) Black Side of the Race Issue, Washington Post (Dec. 4, 1898) The Wilmington Riot, Cleveland Gazette (Dec. 10, 1898)Letter by a Negro Woman to President William McKinley (Nov. 13, 1898) African Americans Killed or Wounded Men Banished from Wilmington during and after the November 10 Violence The Wilmington Riot, Chesnutt's Relatives, and African American Fiction Sylvia Lyons Render o [Violence]Richard Yarborough o Violence, Manhood, and Black Heroism THE CAKEWALK Sheet Music from the 1890s Dusky Dinah: Cake-Walk and PatrolSambo at the Cake Walk Remus Takes the Cake Way Down South: Characteristic March, Cake-Walk and Two-StepCakewalk in the Contemporary Press A Negro Festival, New-York Tribune (July 20, 1870) A Cake Walk, San Francisco Chronicle (Oct. 6, 1873) H. S. Keller o The Cake Walk," Puck (Sept. 7, 1887) They Walked for a Cake and Glory, Chicago Daily Tribune (Feb. 18, 1892) The Cake Walk, New York Times (Feb. 18, 1892) Took the Cake, Boston Globe (Aug. 23, 1892) CRITICISM SELECTED CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS AND EARLY ASSESSMENTS The Race Question in Fiction, The Sunday Herald [Boston] (Oct. 27, 1901)Hamilton Wright Mabie o The New Books, The Outlook (Nov. 16, 1901)Our Holiday Book Table, Zion's Herald (Dec. 4, 1901)Mr. Chesnutt's Marrow of Tradition, New York Times (Dec. 7, 1901)A New Uncle Tom's Cabin, St. Paul Dispatch (Dec. 14, 1901)Katherine Glover o News in the World of Books, Atlanta Journal (Dec. 14, 1901) Charles Alexander o Our Journalist and Literary Folks, The Freeman [Indianapolis] (Dec. 28, 1901) Mr. Chesnutt and the Negro Problem, Newark Sunday News. (Dec. 29, 1901) A. E. H. o Fiction, The Chautauquan (Dec. 1901)William Dean Howells o From A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction, North American Review (Dec. 1901) T. Thomas Fortune o Note and Comment, The New York Age (July 20, 1905)Sterling A. Brown, Arthur P. Davis, and Ulysses Lee o [Racial Conflict in Fiction] RECEPTION Sylvia Lyons Render o From Charles W. Chesnutt William L. Andrews o From The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt CHARACTERS John Edgar Wideman o Charles W. Chesnutt: The Marrow of TraditionP. Jay Delmar o Character and Structure in The Marrow of TraditionErnestine Williams Pickens o White Supremacy and Southern Reform Samina Najmi o From Janet, Polly, and Olivia: Constructs of Blackness and White Femininity in The Marrow of Tradition JUNGIAN AND FOUCAULDIAN APPROACHES Marjorie George and Richard S. Pressman o From Confronting the Shadow: Psycho-Political Repression in The Marrow of TraditionRyan Jay Friedman o From "Between Absorption and Extinction": Charles Chesnutt and Biopolitical Racism PLESSY V. FERGUSON AND THE MARROW OF TRADITION U.S. Supreme Court o Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U. S. 537 (1896) Brook Thomas o The Legal Argument of Charles W. Chesnutt's Novels THE MARROW OF TRADITION AND HISTORY Joyce Pettis o The Literary Imagination and the Historic Event: Chesnutt's Use of History in The Marrow of TraditionJae H. Roe o From Keeping an "Old Wound" Alive: The Marrow of Tradition and the Legacy of Wilmington Eric Sundquist o From Charles Chesnutt's Cakewalk REALISM, TRAGIC MULATTO, VIOLENCE Ryan Simmons o From Simple and Complex Discourse in The Marrow of TraditionStephen P. Knadler o From Untragic Mulatto: Charles Chesnutt and the Discourse of Whiteness Bryan Wagner o Charles Chesnutt and the Epistemology of Racial ViolenceCharles W. Chesnutt: A ChronologySelected Bibliography

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