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Introduction | |
A Note on the Texts | |
The Texts of the Conjure Stories | |
The Goophered Grapevine | |
Po' Sandy | |
The Conjurer's Revenge | |
Dave's Neckliss | |
A Deep Sleeper | |
Lonesome Ben | |
The Dumb Witness | |
A Victim of Heredity; or, Why the Darkey Loves Chicken | |
The Gray Wolf's Ha'nt | |
Mars Jeems's Nightmare | |
Sis' Becky's Pickaninny | |
Tobe's Tribulations | |
Hot-Foot Hannibal | |
The Marked Tree | |
Contexts | |
Sarah Ingle | |
The Terrain of Chesnutt's Conjure Tales | |
Charles W. Chesnutt | |
From His Journal, Spring 1880 | |
[Why could not a colored man . . . write a far better book about the South?] | |
[I think I must write a book] | |
William Wells Brown | |
[Voudooism in Missouri] | |
The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox Ovid | |
The Transformation of Daphne into a Laurel | |
Letters to Albion W. Tourgée and George Washington Cable | |
To Tourgée, Sept. 26, 1889 | |
To Cable, March 29, 1890 | |
To Cable, June 13, 1890 | |
The Deserted Plantation | |
Superstitions and Folk-lore of the South | |
The Free Colored People of North Carolina | |
Adaptation of "The Dumb Witness" | |
The Negro in Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed? | |
Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem | |
Criticism | |
Early Criticism | |
Critical Notices of The Conjure Woman | |
Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt's Stories | |
[Fiction with a Firm Sense of Art] | |
Chesnutt and Walter Hines Page | |
Modern Criticism | |
[Black Magic, Audience, and Belief] | |
[A Critique of the Plantation Legend] | |
[The Cycle of the First Four Stories] | |
[Julius's Ex-Slave Narrative] | |
[Reason, Property, and Modern Metamorphoses] | |
[The Sound of the Conjure Stories] | |
[Chesnutt's Revision of Uncle Remus] | |
[Chesnutt's Negotiation with the Dominant Literary Culture] | |
Conjuring the Conjugal: Chesnutt's Scenes from a Marriage | |
[Black Humor in the Conjure Stories] | |
A Chronology | |
Selected Bibliography | |
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