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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Wife of His Youth and Other Storiesdi Charles W. Chesnutt
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The stories in this collection seem very simple on the surface but have a depth to them that becomes apparent as the reader thinks a bit more. The eponymous story tells the tale of an older, very fair-skinned man who is about to propose to an equally fair-skinned young woman, certain of his acceptance as he's an educated man, a pillar of the community. Just before he can do so however, a very dark older woman speaking an entirely different dialect than this pillar shows up at his door in search of the long lost husband whom she lost track of during the Civil War. Her darkness against his fairness and the quandry this puts him in, the moral question here, gives him pause. In another story, a man takes money from the wife he had from before the war after finding out that they aren't legally married, heads north, and builds a new life, which includes marrying a white woman. But it isn't long before he realizes that his life with his first wife was so much more fulfilling and happy. Yet another story has a family whose convictions about the superiority of the fairer-skinned people in the African American community and their own worth in the social hierarchy cost the daughter an appropriate husband.
The stories are not hard to follow although they can be somewhat formal in tone. Some of the stories contain dialect while others do not. All paint a fairly realistic picture of the evolving African American society in the years following the Civil War. Overall this is a fascinating portrait of a society in search of its own identity and provides an accurate glimpse into history. The writing is clear and straightforward and the stories engaging. It is a quick read and an important one. Chesnutt's reputation as a man of literature is justly founded. ( )