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The Absent Man: The Narrative Craft of Charles W. Chesnutt
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The Absent Man: The Narrative Craft of Charles W. Chesnutt Hardcover - 1998

by Charles Duncan

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First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xx/214 pages. "As the first African-American fiction writer to achieve a national reputation, Ohio native Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932) in many ways established the terms of the black literary tradition now exemplified by such writers as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Charles Johnson."
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  • Title The Absent Man: The Narrative Craft of Charles W. Chesnutt
  • Author Charles Duncan
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition New
  • Pages 234
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ohio University Press, Athens
  • Date 1998
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2724
  • ISBN 9780821412398 / 0821412396
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.75 x 5.81 x 0.9 in (22.23 x 14.76 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans in literature, Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 19th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98022063
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.4

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About the author

An associate professor of English at Peace College, Raleigh, North Carolina, Charles Duncan is the author of The Absent Man: The Narrative Craft of Charles W. Chesnutt and numerous articles on American literature. He received the Charles Waddell Chesnutt Association's Sylvia Lyons Render Award for his work in Chesnutt studies.

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