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03486aam a2200493 i 4500 001 901DB04C246D11E5A97E42B6DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150707010042 008 140729s2014 wvu b s000 1 eng 010 $a 2014029378 020 $a 1940425239 (cloth) 020 $a 9781940425238 (hardback) 020 $a 1935978918 (paperback) 020 $a 9781935978916 (paperback) 035 $a (OCoLC)878976549 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d COO $d ZCU $d CDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-nc 050 00 $a PS1292.C6 $b C65 2014 082 00 $a 813/.4 $2 23 084 $a FIC049040 $a FIC049040 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Chesnutt, Charles W. $q (Charles Waddell), $d 1858-1932, $e author. 245 14 $a The Colonel's Dream / $c original text by Charles W. Chesnutt ; edited by R. J. Ellis. 264 1 $a Morgantown : $b West Virginia University Press, $c 2014. 300 $a 376 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Regenerations : African American literature and culture ; $v volume four 520 $a "Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African American writer, essayist, Civil Rights activist, legal-stenography businessman, and lawyer whose novels and short stories explore race, racism, and the problematic contours of African Americans' social and cultural identities in post-Civil War South. He was the first African American to be published by a major American publishing house and served as a beacon-point for future African American writers. The Colonel's Dream, written in 1905, is a compelling tale of the post-Civil War South's degeneration into a region awash with virulent racist practices against African Americans: segregation, lynchings, disenfranchisement, convict-labor exploitation, and endemic violent repression. The events in this novel are powerfully depicted from the point of view of a philanthropic but unreliable southern white colonel. Upon his return to the South, the colonel learns to abhor this southern world, as a tale of vicious racism unfolds. Throughout this narrative, Chesnutt confronts the deteriorating position of African Americans in an increasingly hostile South. Upon its publication The Colonel's Dream was considered too controversial and unpalatable because of its bitter criticisms of southern white prejudice and northern indifference, and so this groundbreaking story failed to gain public attention and acclaim. This is the first scholarly edition of The Colonel's Dream. It includes an introduction and notes by R. J. Ellis and works to reestablish this great novel's reputation. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 651 0 $a United States $x Veterans $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Veterans $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Failure (Psychology) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a City and town life $v Fiction. 651 0 $a North Carolina $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Race relations $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Rich people $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Racism $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Chesnutt, Charles W. $q (Charles Waddell), $d 1858-1932 $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / African American / Historical. $2 bisacsh 655 0 $a Psychological fiction. 700 1 $a Ellis, R. J., $d 1949- $e editor. 830 0 $a Regenerations ; $v v. 4. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180119034230.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=901DB04C246D11E5A97E42B6DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search