Mamba's Daughters - A Novel of Charleston (Paperback)

The author of Porgy portrays Charleston's comic social climbers When Mamba appears on the Wentworth doorstep, this shrewd woman takes the first step in surmounting a social barrier as thorny as any in early twentieth-century Charleston. For the sake of her family, Mamba navigates a comic, calculated path to the privelged class of African-Americans employed by Charleston's aristocratic white families. Set in the early twentieth-century, this classic novel transcends racial boundaries by intertwining the stories of three very different families in an amusing plot of deception, ambition, and social transformation. A new introduction by Don H. Doyle places Mamba's Daughters in its historical context and suggests that in the novel, Heyward challenges the harsh, unjust aspects of Southern race relations.

General

Imprint:	University of South Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 1995
First published:	February 1995
Authors:	DuBose Heyward
Dimensions:	178 x 127 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-57003-042-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-57003-042-1
Barcode:	9781570030420

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