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Dubose Heyward
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Porgy
Porgy is about a crippled street beggar living in the black tenements of Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1920s. You will be humbled by this character based on Charlestonian Samuel Smalls. This is a moving and realistic drama about poor black characters in the 1920s American South.
The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes, as Told to Jenifer
The country bunny attains the exalted position of Easter Bunny in spite of her responsibilities as the mother of twenty-one children.
A DuBose Heyward Reader
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. Hutch...
The Half Pint Flask
Removal of flask from grave of negro boy incites voodoo vengeance ending in insane terror.
DuBose Heyward
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The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess
Examines the opera Porgy and Bess's long history of invention and reinvention as a barometer of 20th-century American expectations about race, culture and the struggle for equality.
DuBose Heyward
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Porgy
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