Author: James M. Hutchisson
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617030956
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Dubose Heyward
Author: James M. Hutchisson
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617030956
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617030956
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Porgy
Author: DuBose Heyward
Publisher: Bibliotech Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Basis for light opera Porgy and Bess. Story of crippled Negro beggar and his friends and enemies in Charleston, S.C.
Publisher: Bibliotech Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Basis for light opera Porgy and Bess. Story of crippled Negro beggar and his friends and enemies in Charleston, S.C.
The Half Pint Flask
Author: DuBose Heyward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Removal of flask from grave of negro boy incites voodoo vengeance ending in insane terror.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Removal of flask from grave of negro boy incites voodoo vengeance ending in insane terror.
A DuBose Heyward Reader
Author: DuBose Heyward
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820324685
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
DuBose Heyward (1885-1940) was a central figure in both the Charleston and the Southern Renaissance. His influence extended to the Harlem Renaissance as well. However, Heyward is often remembered simply as the author of Porgy, the 1925 novel about the poorest black residents of Charleston, South Carolina. Porgy--the novel and its stage versions--has probably done more to shape views worldwide of African American life in the South than any twentieth-century work besides Gone with the Wind. This volume acquaints readers with writings by Heyward that have been overshadowed by Porgy, and it also plumbs the complex sensibilities of the man behind that popular and enduring creation. James M. Hutchisson's introduction relates aspects of Heyward's life to his creative growth and his gradual shift from staunch social conservatism to a liberal (though never revolutionary) advocacy of black rights. The reader collects ten essays by Heyward on topics ranging from an aesthetics of African American art to the history of Charleston. Heyward's poetry is represented by eighteen pieces from the collections Carolina Chansons, Skylines and Horizons, and Jasbo Brown and Selected Poems. Also included are three song lyrics Heyward wrote for the opera Porgy and Bess. The sampling of Heyward's fiction includes the stories "The Brute" and The Half Pint Flask and excerpts from the novels Porgy, Mamba's Daughters, and Peter Ashley. Here is an ideal introduction to a figure whose inner conflicts were closely tied to those of his beloved South: struggles between privilege and poverty, black and white, and art for the few versus art for the masses.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820324685
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
DuBose Heyward (1885-1940) was a central figure in both the Charleston and the Southern Renaissance. His influence extended to the Harlem Renaissance as well. However, Heyward is often remembered simply as the author of Porgy, the 1925 novel about the poorest black residents of Charleston, South Carolina. Porgy--the novel and its stage versions--has probably done more to shape views worldwide of African American life in the South than any twentieth-century work besides Gone with the Wind. This volume acquaints readers with writings by Heyward that have been overshadowed by Porgy, and it also plumbs the complex sensibilities of the man behind that popular and enduring creation. James M. Hutchisson's introduction relates aspects of Heyward's life to his creative growth and his gradual shift from staunch social conservatism to a liberal (though never revolutionary) advocacy of black rights. The reader collects ten essays by Heyward on topics ranging from an aesthetics of African American art to the history of Charleston. Heyward's poetry is represented by eighteen pieces from the collections Carolina Chansons, Skylines and Horizons, and Jasbo Brown and Selected Poems. Also included are three song lyrics Heyward wrote for the opera Porgy and Bess. The sampling of Heyward's fiction includes the stories "The Brute" and The Half Pint Flask and excerpts from the novels Porgy, Mamba's Daughters, and Peter Ashley. Here is an ideal introduction to a figure whose inner conflicts were closely tied to those of his beloved South: struggles between privilege and poverty, black and white, and art for the few versus art for the masses.
DuBose Heyward
Author: William H. Slavick
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes, as Told to Jenifer
Author: DuBose Heyward
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395185575
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The country bunny attains the exalted position of Easter Bunny in spite of her responsibilities as the mother of twenty-one children.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395185575
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The country bunny attains the exalted position of Easter Bunny in spite of her responsibilities as the mother of twenty-one children.
Conversations with Paul Auster
Author: Paul Auster
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617037362
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Interviews with the author of The New York Trilogy, In the Country of Last Things, and The Brooklyn Follies
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617037362
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Interviews with the author of The New York Trilogy, In the Country of Last Things, and The Brooklyn Follies
Porgy
Author: DuBose Heyward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Mamba's Daughters
Author: Du Bose Heyward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
A Golden Haze of Memory
Author: Stephanie E. Yuhl
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Charleston, South Carolina, today enjoys a reputation as a destination city for cultural and heritage tourism. In A Golden Haze of Memory, Stephanie E. Yuhl looks back to the crucial period between 1920 and 1940, when local leaders developed Charleston's trademark image as "America's Most Historic City." Eager to assert the national value of their regional cultural traditions and to situate Charleston as a bulwark against the chaos of modern America, these descendants of old-line families downplayed Confederate associations and emphasized the city's colonial and early national prominence. They created a vibrant network of individual artists, literary figures, and organizations--such as the all-white Society for the Preservation of Negro Spirituals--that nurtured architectural preservation, art, literature, and tourism while appropriating African American folk culture. In the process, they translated their selective and idiosyncratic personal, familial, and class memories into a collective identity for the city. The Charleston this group built, Yuhl argues, presented a sanitized yet highly marketable version of the American past. Their efforts invited attention and praise from outsiders while protecting social hierarchies and preserving the political and economic power of whites. Through the example of this colorful southern city, Yuhl posits a larger critique about the use of heritage and demonstrates how something as intangible as the recalled past can be transformed into real political, economic, and social power.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Charleston, South Carolina, today enjoys a reputation as a destination city for cultural and heritage tourism. In A Golden Haze of Memory, Stephanie E. Yuhl looks back to the crucial period between 1920 and 1940, when local leaders developed Charleston's trademark image as "America's Most Historic City." Eager to assert the national value of their regional cultural traditions and to situate Charleston as a bulwark against the chaos of modern America, these descendants of old-line families downplayed Confederate associations and emphasized the city's colonial and early national prominence. They created a vibrant network of individual artists, literary figures, and organizations--such as the all-white Society for the Preservation of Negro Spirituals--that nurtured architectural preservation, art, literature, and tourism while appropriating African American folk culture. In the process, they translated their selective and idiosyncratic personal, familial, and class memories into a collective identity for the city. The Charleston this group built, Yuhl argues, presented a sanitized yet highly marketable version of the American past. Their efforts invited attention and praise from outsiders while protecting social hierarchies and preserving the political and economic power of whites. Through the example of this colorful southern city, Yuhl posits a larger critique about the use of heritage and demonstrates how something as intangible as the recalled past can be transformed into real political, economic, and social power.