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Literary collections, African Americans in literature, Intellectual life, History and criticism, American literature, Civilization, In literature, African Americans, American literature, history and criticism, Southern states, civilization, Southern states, in literature, Southern states, intellectual life, African americans in literaturePlaces
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments xiii
List of Abbreviations Used in the Text xv
Introduction xvii CRITICAL WRITINGS
"Poetry South" (with Hervey Allen) 3
Preface to Carolina Chansons (with Hervey Allen) ii
"And Once Again-the Negro" 13
Foreword to the Year Book of the Poetry Society of South Carolina (1923) 17
"The New Note in Southern Literature" 22
"The American Negro in Art" 27
"The Negro in the Low-Country" 34
"Porgy and Bess Return on Wings of Song" 46
"Dock Street Theatre" 52
"Charleston: Where Mellow Past and Present Meet" 57 POETRY
FROM Carolina Chansons 75
"Silences" 75
"The Pirates" 77
"The Last Crew" 85
"Modern Philosopher" 94
"Gamesters All" 94
"Dusk" 98
FROM Skylines and Horizons 99
"Your Gifts" 99
"A Yoke of Steers" ioo
"The Mountain Woman" ioi
"The Mountain Preacher" IoI
"Black Christmas" 103
"New England Landscape" 103
"Suffrage" 104
"Weariness" 105
"Buzzard Island" 105
"Chant for an Old Town" 1o6
FROM Jasbo Brown and Selected Poems 113
"Jasbo Brown" 113
"Prodigal" 119
FROM Porgy andBess 120
"Summertime" 120
"My Man's Gone Now" 120
"A Woman Is a Sometime Thing" 12z FICTION
"The Brute" 125
FROM Porgy 133
Catfish Row and the Murder of Robbins 133
Porgy, Bess, and Sportin' Life 146
The Hurricane 155
Porgy's Heroism and His Loss 169
The Haf Pint Flask 181
FROM Mamba's Daughters: A Novel of Charleston 195
Hagar and Bluton 195
Lissa and the Black Elite 204
Lissa's Triumph 230
FROM Peter Ashley 236
Peter's Conflicted Identity 236
The Slave Market 246 Emendations in the Copy-Texts 261
Notes 265
Index 289.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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