Acknowledgments
Introduction: Of Race and Realism
1. Learning to Be a Realist: Chesnutt’s Northern Novels
2. Time Passing: Chesnutt’s Revisions of the “Tragic Mulatta” Tale
3. Simple and Complex Discourse in The Marrow of Tradition
4. The Colonel’s Dream: Reconsidering a Radical Text
5. “The Category of Surreptitious Things”: Paul Marchand, F.M.C. and The Quarry
Notes
Works Cited
Index