Introduction to the Reader’s Report of Charles W. Chesnutt’s “The Marrow of Tradition” (1901)

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  • Tess Chakkalakal Bowdoin College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13135/1592-4467/12465

Keywords:

Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition, Reader's Report, Harvard University's Special Collections, Houghton Mifflin Company Reports, Chakkalakal, A Matter of Complexion, William Belmont Parker

Abstract

Introduction to the Reader’s Report of Charles W. Chesnutt’s “The Marrow of Tradition” (1901).

Author Biography

Tess Chakkalakal, Bowdoin College

Tess Chakkakal is Professor of Africana Studies and English. She is the author of A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt (St. Martin’s, 2025) and Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Illinois Press, 2012) and co-editor of Imperium in Imperio: A Critical Edition (West Virginia University Press, 2022) and Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs (University of Georgia Press, 2013).

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Published

2025-09-10

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Vol. 36 (2025): Reproductive Justice and Its Discontents: Recent Representations in American Popular Culture

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First Editions

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