LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Question
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Explain how African Americans could not learn standard English
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Make his written inaccessible to white audiences
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To encourage feelings of pride in African American readers
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Challenge American stereotypes about race
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Detailed explanation-1: -Chesnutt’s stories on racial identity were more complex than those of many of his contemporaries. He wrote about characters dealing with difficult issues of mixed race, “passing", illegitimacy, racial identities, and social place throughout his career.
Detailed explanation-2: -Today Chesnutt is recognized as a major innovator in the tradition of Afro American fiction, an important contributor to the deromanticizing trend in post-Civil War southern literature and a singular voice among turn-of-the-century realists who treated the color line in American life.
Detailed explanation-3: -Since Chesnutt was mixed raced, he experienced both the best and the worst of both worlds. He was able to receive an education, but he chose to dedicate much of his writing career to the promotion of African Americans.
Detailed explanation-4: -CHESNUTT, CHARLES WADDELL (20 June 1858-15 Nov. 1932), a novelist, short-story writer, and lawyer, was the first black writer to deal with race from the Negro’s point of view. Born in Cleveland to Andrew J. and Maria Chesnutt, the family moved to Fayetteville, N.C. where Chesnutt grew up.