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A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the
author of the American classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God which
brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it
tells the true story of the last known survivor of the Atlantic
slave trade-illegally smuggled from Africa on the last "Black
Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States. In 1927, Zora Neale
Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, to interview ninety-five-year-old
Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children
transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the
only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the
nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand
account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years
after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States.
In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community
three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves
from his ship. Spending more than three months there, she talked in
depth with Cudjo about the details of his life. During those weeks,
the young writer and the elderly formerly enslaved man ate peaches
and watermelon that grew in the backyard and talked about Cudjo's
past-memories from his childhood in Africa, the horrors of being
captured and held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers,
the harrowing experience of the Middle Passage packed with more
than 100 other souls aboard the Clotilde, and the years he spent in
slavery until the end of the Civil War. Based on those interviews,
featuring Cudjo's unique vernacular, and written from Hurston's
perspective with the compassion and singular style that have made
her one of the preeminent American authors of the
twentieth-century, Barracoon brilliantly illuminates the tragedy of
slavery and one life forever defined by it. Offering insight into
the pernicious legacy that continues to haunt us all, black and
white, this poignant and powerful work is an invaluable
contribution to our shared history and culture.
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The Mule-Bone (Paperback)
Zora Neale Hurston, Zora Hurston And Langston Hughes
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R373
Discovery Miles 3 730
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This is a three-act comedy from the Harlem Renaissance. The setting
is Florida. The main characters are two song and dance men and
Daisy. Here is a classic love triangle. Jealously causes Jim to hit
Dave with a mule bone. The town is split over this incident. The
Methodists want Jim pardoned. The Baptists want him banished.
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Louisiana Stories (Paperback)
Zora Hurston; Edited by Ben Forkner; Contributions by E. O'Donnell, Shirley Grau, Ernest Gaines, …
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R595
R486
Discovery Miles 4 860
Save R109 (18%)
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"An illuminating, and at the same time, thoroughly entertaining
compilation, Louisiana Stories is enhanced by an introductory essay
that is a contribution not only to the literary history of the
state but also of the South." Lewis P. Simpson, former professor of
English at Louisiana State University and editor of The Southern
Review. Southern writers have always excelled in the short story
form. Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Peter Taylor are the
yardsticks by which short story writers are judged not only within
the realm of Southern literature but also within that of American
literature. By compiling an impressive array of stories by many of
the Deep South's finest writers, anthologist Ben Forkner
demonstrates how Louisianans in particular have influenced the
development of the short story. Forkner writes in his insightful
introductory essay: "These same native Louisiana stories manage to
announce the central themes of modern Southern fiction more
emphatically, and earlier, than the writing of any other single
Southern region." Included in this compilation are works by Henry
Clay Lewis, George Washington Cable, Lafcadio Hearn, Grace King,
Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Lyle Saxon, Arna Bontemps, Zora
Neale Hurston, E.P. O'Donnell, Shirley Ann Grau, Ernest Gaines,
Andre Dubus, James Lee Burke, Robb Forman Dew, and John William
Corrington. Ben Forkner is the director of the English department
at the University of Angers in France where he teaches American and
Irish literature. A graduate of Stetson University in Florida, he
received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. He has co-edited three anthologies of Southern
literature, Stories of the Modern South, A Modern Southern Reader,
and Stories of the Old South .
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