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• W214417924 abstract "Charles W. Chesnutt uses many of the local color literary conventions popular in the late 19th century especially delineation; however, he infuses his place with characters and actions which produce a powerful criticism of racial injustice. county he creates, Chinquapin County, and its main shopping center, Patesville, is a viable, effective physical environment for the black and white people who live there. Chesnutt understood that the physical environment--the sandhills, the pine trees, the climate, and the Cape Fear River--greatly influences the economic and social development of its people. A whole gallery of characters act and react according to their own personalities and stations in the Chinquapin County society, which is struggling to change in the Reconstruction Period, but is still bound by the web of tradition of the Old South. Although Chesnutt put forth a superhuman effort to remove himself and his family from Fayetteville, North Carolina, represented as Patesville in his stories, he was never able mentally to cut himself off from the area. He continued to write about life in the Fayetteville area until at least 1924 when his last published story, The Marked Tree, appeared in Crisis. His years of growing up there from 1866 to 1883 were the most impressionable years of his life according to his personal journals in the Chesnutt Collection at Fisk University. As he worked in his father's grocery store, he listened to the gossip of the customers about Negroes and whites, to their tales of superstitions, and to the stories about the old conjure woman who still lived on Wilmington Road. He also listened to the Negroes discuss the events of the Reconstruction Period and watched their struggles to establish schools and participate as citizens in the rather fluid political system. After largely educating himself, he began to move around the countryside at the age of sixteen, teaching wherever he could find a job. He observed the country people, both black and white, and felt very keenly about their poverty and ignorance. He very early recognized the dynamics of the white-black relationships and the injustice of the social system which continued after the war. (1) As Chesnutt looked back on his early impressions of the South, he apparently established an interconnected pattern of life which he used in his stories much as Faulkner did in a later period. Although Chesnutt's Chinquapin County did not become the legend of the Deep South like Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha, he did become the earliest recorder of the realistic experiences of Negro people in American fiction and a forerunner and prophet of things to come in the literature of the South. His major themes, rejected by the reading public at the turn of the century, later became acceptable in the works of Faulkner and 20th century Black writers. Chinquapin County is developed in two periods of American life: the present being the Reconstruction Period of 1865-1900 and the past being the Antebellum Period. Into some thirty stories and three novels, Chesnutt interweaves the past with his tales of Southern aristocrats, poor whites, free Negroes and slaves. In different stories, references are made to some of the same characters, plantations, major roads, creeks, and other landmarks. John the Yankee, owner of the McAdoo plantation in the Reconstruction Period, and Julius, a former McAdoo slave, serve as narrators of Conjure Woman tales as well as seven other stories which were published in various magazines over a long period of time. McAdoo place, located on Lumberton Plank Road, appears in stories of both the Antebellum and Reconstruction Periods. Many of the Black characters at some time belonged to this plantation or their ancestors had been connected with this place. Often they appear to have escaped from it, but then circumstances force them to return. For example, Aunt Mimy, whose mother had belonged to Major McAdoo, was employed as cook by the Yankee newcomer, John. …" @default.
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