Contents -- Preface -- 1. Chesnutt's Language / Language's Chesnutt -- 2. Chesnutt in His Journals: "Nigger" under Erasure -- 3. "The Future American" and "Chas. Chesnutt" -- 4. Black Vernacular in Chesnutt's Short Fiction: "A New School of Literature" -- 5. The Julius and John Stories: "The Luscious Scuppernong" -- 6. Race in Chesnutt's Short Fiction: The "Line" and the "Web" -- 7. Mandy Oxendine: "Is You a Rale Black Man?" -- 8. The House behind the Cedars: "Creatures of Our Creation" -- 9. The Marrow of Tradition: "The Very Breath of His Nostrils" -- 10. The Colonel's Dream: "Sho Would 'a' Be'n a 'Ristocrat" -- 11. PaulMarchand, F.M.C.: "F.M.C." and "C.W.C." -- 12. The Quarry: "And Not the Hawk" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.