Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess

Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess
Title Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess PDF eBook
Author Kendra Y. Hamilton
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 416
Release 2024-06-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0820362905

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Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess is a literary and cultural history of a place: the Gullah Geechee Coast, a four-state area that’s one of only a handful of places that can truly be said to be the “cradle of Black culture” in the United States. Romancing the Gullah seeks to fill a gap and correct the maps. While there is a veritable industry of books on literary Charleston and on “the lowcountry,” along with a plenitude of Gullah-inspired studies in history, anthropology, linguistics, folklore, and religion, there has never been a comprehensive study of the region’s literary influence, particularly in the years of the Great Migration and the Harlem (and Charleston) Renaissance. By giving voice to artists and culture makers on both sides of the color line, uncovering buried histories, and revealing secret connections between races amid official practices of Jim Crow, Romancing the Gullah sheds new light on an only partially told tale. A labor of love by a Charleston insider, the book imparts a lively and accessible overview of its subject in a manner that will satisfy the book lover and the scholar.

Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess

Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess
Title Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess PDF eBook
Author Kendra Y. Hamilton
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 267
Release 2024
Genre History
ISBN 0820363618

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"Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess is a literary and cultural history of the Gullah Geechee Coast, a four-state area that is one of only a handful of places that can truly be said to be the "cradle of Black culture" in the United States. An African American ethnic group who predominantly live in the lowcountry region of South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida within the coastal plain and the Sea Islands, the Gullah people have preserved a significant influence of Africanisms because of their unique geographic isolation. This book seeks to fill a significant cultural gap in Gullah history. While there is a veritable industry of books on literary Charleston and on the lowcountry-along with a plenitude of Gullah-inspired studies in history, anthropology, linguistics, folklore, and religion- there has never been a comprehensive study of the region's literary influence, particularly in the years of the Great Migration and the Harlem (and Charleston) Renaissance. By giving voice to artists and culture makers on both sides of the color line, uncovering buried histories, and revealing secret cross-racial connections amid official practices of Jim Crow, Kendra Y. Hamilton sheds new light on an incomplete cultural history. A labor of love by a Charleston insider, the book imparts a lively and accessible overview of its subject in a manner that will satisfy the book lover and the scholar"--

The Goddess of Gumbo

The Goddess of Gumbo
Title The Goddess of Gumbo PDF eBook
Author Kendra Hamilton
Publisher Wordtech Communications Llc
Pages 80
Release 2006
Genre Poetry
ISBN 9781933456348

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Sentimental Confessions

Sentimental Confessions
Title Sentimental Confessions PDF eBook
Author Joycelyn Moody
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 229
Release 2003
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0820325740

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Sentimental Confessions is a groundbreaking study of evangelicalism, sentimentalism, and nationalism in early African American holy women’s autobiography. At its core are analyses of the life writings of six women--Maria Stewart, Jarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw, Nancy Prince, Mattie J. Jackson, and Julia Foote--all of which appeared in the mid-nineteenth century. Joycelyn Moody shows how these authors appropriated white-sanctioned literary conventions to assert their voices and to protest the racism, patriarchy, and other forces that created and sustained their poverty and enslavement. In doing so, Moody also reveals the wealth of insights that could be gained from these kinds of writings if we were to acknowledge the spiritual convictions of their authors--if we read them because (not although) they are holy texts. The deeply held, passionately expressed beliefs of these women, says Moody, should not be brushed aside by scholars who may be tempted to view them as naïve or as indicative only of the racial, class, and gender oppressions these women suffered. In addition, Moody promotes new ways of looking at dictated narratives without relegating them to a status below self-authored texts. Helping to recover a neglected chapter of American literary history, Sentimental Confessions is filled with insights into the state of the nation in the nineteenth century.

Black Masculinity and the U.S. South

Black Masculinity and the U.S. South
Title Black Masculinity and the U.S. South PDF eBook
Author Riché Richardson
Publisher New Southern Studies
Pages 296
Release 2007
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780820328904

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This pathbreaking study of region, race, and gender reveals how we underestimate the South's influence on the formation of black masculinity at the national level. Starting with such well-known caricatures as the Uncle Tom and the black rapist, Richardson investigates a range of pathologies of black masculinity.

Transforming Scriptures

Transforming Scriptures
Title Transforming Scriptures PDF eBook
Author Katherine Clay Bassard
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 182
Release 2011
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 082033880X

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Transforming Scriptures is the first sustained treatment of African American women writers' intellectual, even theological, engagements with the book Northrop Frye referred to as the “great code” of Western civilization. Katherine Clay Bassard discusses how such texts respond as a collective “literary witness” to the use of the Bible for purposes of social domination.

Elegy for Mary Turner

Elegy for Mary Turner
Title Elegy for Mary Turner PDF eBook
Author Rachel Marie-Crane Williams
Publisher Verso Books
Pages 81
Release 2021-08-17
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1788739078

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A lyrical and haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, evoked through stunning full-color artwork In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten Black men and one Black woman—Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time—were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens. Through hauntingly detailed full-color artwork and collage, Elegy for Mary Turner names those who were killed, identifies the killers, and evokes a landscape in which the NAACP investigated the crimes when the state would not and a time when white citizens baked pies and flocked to see Black corpses while Black people fought to make their lives—and their mourning—matter. Included are contributions from C. Tyrone Forehand, great-grandnephew of Mary and Hayes Turner, whose family has long campaigned for the deaths to be remembered; abolitionist activist and educator Mariame Kaba, reflecting on the violence visited on Black women’s bodies; and historian Julie Buckner Armstrong, who opens a window onto the broader scale of lynching’s terror in American history.