Southern local color : stories of region, race, and gender

Ewell, Barbara C. (Added Author). Menke, Pamela Glenn, 1940- (Added Author). Humphrey, Andrea. (Added Author).

Item details

ISBN: 0820323160 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780820323169 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0820323179 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780820323176 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
lxvi, 323 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2002.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-323).

Formatted Contents Note:

The story of Bras-Coupé / George Washington Cable -- A true story, repeated word for word as I heard it / Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) -- Felipa / Constance Fenimore Woolson -- Gran'mammy ; Why Gran'mammy didn't like pound-cake ; Jack and the mountain pink / Katharine (Sherwood Bonner) McDowell -- Uncle Remus initiates the little boy ; The wonderful tar-baby story ; How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox ; Where's Duncan? / Joel Chandler Harris -- The star in the valley / Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock) -- Why crabs are boiled alive ; A Creole mystery / (Patrick) Lafcadio Hearn -- Unc'Edinburg's drowndin': a plantation echo / Thomas Nelson Page -- The balcony ; The little convent girl ; La grande demoiselle / Grace King -- A Bamboula / Mollie E. Moore Davis -- The goophered grapevine ; Dave's neckliss ; The passing of grandison / Charles W. Chesnutt -- The heart of it / Sarah Barnwell Elliott -- Désirée's baby ; La belle Zoraïde ; In sabine ; The storm / Kate Chopin -- Nelse Hatton's vengeance ; The lynching of Jube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The praline woman ; Tony's wife ; Sister Josepha / Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson.