American Writers (One Hundred Pages at a Time)
Episode 108: Charles W. Chesnutt, The Wife of His Youth (1)
18 Mar 2018
And now we look at some of the stories in Charles Chesnutt's collection "The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line." This ia a great window into Chesnutt's views on race in America in the aftermath of the Civil War and Reconstruction. In this episide I look at four of the collected stories. "The Wife of His Youth" "Her Virginia Mammy" "The Sheriff's Children" "A Matter of Principle"
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