Aunt Sara's Wooden God (eBook)

Mercedes Gilbert (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-82571-7 (ISBN)

Infos

"An authentic everyday story of thousands of little families below the Mason-Dixon line, bound to the soil by poverty and blackness," noted Langston Hughes, favorably comparing this 1938 novel to Zora Neale Hurston's work.

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Aunt Sara takes pride in both her sons, mixed-race William and his half-brother, Jim. While hard-working Jim remains at home to tend to the farm, William heads for the bright lights of Macon, ostensibly to study theology. But his cold, hard, and calculating nature steers William away from school and toward the low company of the city's gambling dens. Worse yet, his jealous rivalry with Jim for the affections of their childhood playmate leads William to a dreadful act of betrayal."e;This is an authentic everyday story of thousands of little families below the Mason-Dixon line, bound to the soil by poverty and blackness, but living their enclosed lives always in the hope that someday some one of them may escape the family group and go on to higher things,"e; noted Langston Hughes. In his Foreword to Mercedes Gilbert's 1938 novel of small-town rural life in the South, Hughes offered favorable comparisons to Jonah's Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston and George Henderson's Ollie Miss. Decades later, the book remains an important document of African-American social history.

Autor

African-American writer and actress Mercedes Gilbert (1894–1952) performed on radio and in the movies and television. She frequently appeared on Broadway, most notably in the all-black cast of Tobacco Road. Aunt Sara's Wooden God is her only book-length work of fiction.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.2017
• Reihe/Serie: African American
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Schlagworte: 20th Century Novels • African American • african american fiction • American Fiction • betrayal • black in america • black poverty • brother relationships • childhood playmate • class and race • Classic Literature • class of races • Delinquency • early 20th century south • Family • farm life • Fiction • Gambling • gambling addiction • generational • half brothers • Hardship • historical fiction • jealous rivalry • Langston Hughes • mason dixon line • Mercedes Gilbert • mixed raced family • mother son relationships • Oppression • poor black families • poverty stricken • racial issues • rural life in the south • sibling rivalries • small-town life • Women writers of the 20th Century.
• ISBN-10: 0-486-82571-X / 048682571X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-82571-7 / 9780486825717