The Chesnutt Association sponsored a panel at ALA, May 26-29, on New Directions in Chesnutt Scholarship

Chair: Bill Hardwig, University of Tennessee

1. “Chesnutt’s Animals,” Alex Alston, Columbia University
2. “The mark of the burglar’s tools”: The Burglary Narrative in Dockery vs. Bellamy and Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition,” Rebekah Aycock, University of Kansas
3. “Racialized Violence and the Weaponization of Forgiveness Rituals: Reading Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition,” Morgan Shaffer, University of Tennessee