Robert Bone (essay date 1975) SOURCE: Bone, Robert. Down Home: A
History of Afro-American Short Fiction from Its Beginnings to
the End of the Harlem Renaissance, New York: G. P. Putnam's
Sons, 1975, 328 p. [In the following excerpt, Bone examines
regional literature written by African American authors in the
American South particularly the fiction of Joel Chandler Harris
and Charles W. Chesnutt.] THE LOCAL-COLOR SCHOOL When Chesnutt
and Dunbar turned to story-writing in the 1880's and 1890's,
they were not working in a cultural vacuum.... (The entire page
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