Overview

Even well-meaning fiction writers of the late Jim Crow era (1900-1955) perpetuated racial stereotypes in their depiction of black characters. From 1918 to 1952, Octavus Roy Cohen turned out a remarkable 360 short stories featuring Florian Slappey and the schemers, romancers and ditzes of Birmingham's Darktown for The Saturday Evening Post and other publications. Cohen said, ""I received a great deal of mail from Negroes and I have never found any resentment from a one of them."" The black readership had to be satisfied with any black presence in the popular literature of the day. The best known white writers of black characters included Booth Tarkington (Herman and Verman in the Penrod books), Irvin S. Cobb (Judge Priest's houseman Jeff Poindexter), Roark Bradford (Widow Duck, the plantation matriarch), Hugh Wiley (Wildcat Marsden, the war veteran who traveled the country in the company of his goat) and Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden (radio's Amos 'n' Andy). These writers deservedly declined in the civil rights era, but left a curious legacy that deserves examination. This book, focusing on authors of series fiction and particularly of humorous stories, profiles 29 writers and their black characters in detail, with brief entries covering 72 others.

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Author:   Bernard A. Drew
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.517kg
ISBN:  

9780786474103

ISBN 10:   0786474106
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   28 April 2015
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Adult education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface Introduction: If That Is the Way They Are in Stories, That Must Be the Way They Are in Life I. Writers of the Antebellum, Reconstruction and Early Jim Crow Era (1851–1899) Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Mark Twain (1835–1910) Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908) George Washington Cable (1844–1925) Thomas Nelson Page (1853–1922) Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932) Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) II. Writers of the Late Jim Crow Era (1900–1955) Richard F. Outcault (1863–1928) Henry Edwards Cowen (“Red Buck”) Bryant (1873–1967) Bridges Smith (1848–1930) Harris Dickson (1868–1946) Irvin S. Cobb (1876–1944) E.K. (Eldred Kurtz) Means (1878–1957) Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) James P. Alley (1885–1934) and Calvin Alley (1915–1970) Ambrose E. Gonzales (1857–1926) Robert McBlair (1888–1976) Octavus Roy Cohen (1891–1959) Harry Stillwell Edwards (1855–1938) Arthur LeRoy Kaser (1890–1956) Hugh Wiley (1884–1968) Arthur K. Akers (1886–1980) Roark Bradford (1896–1948) Charles Correll (1890–1972) and Freeman F. Gosden (1899–1982) Paul F. Ernst (1899–1985) Will Eisner (1917–2005) Langston Hughes (1902–1967) III. Additional Writers of Interest Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784) Robert Roberts (1780–1860) Thomas D. Rice (1808–1860) John Pendleton Kennedy (1795–1870) George Washington Dixon (1801–1861) Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790–1870) Caroline Gilman (1794–1888) Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880) Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) William Wells Brown (1814–1884) E.D.E.N. Southworth (1819–1899) Mary Henderson Eastman (1818–1887) Maria J. McIntosh (1803–1878) Caroline Lee Hentz (1800–1856) Mary J. Holmes (1825–1907) Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) Johnson Jones Hooper (1815–1862) Martin Delany (1812–1885) Harriet E. Wilson (1825–1900) Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813–1897) Petroleum V. Nasby (1833–1888) Samuel W. Small (1851–1931) Irwin Russell (1853–1879) Thomas Worth (1834–1917) Colonel Prentiss Ingraham (1843–1904) Louise Clarke Pyrnelle (1850–1907) Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (1849–1883) Ruth McEnery Stuart (1849–1917) Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911) Polk Miller (1844–1913) John Trotwood Moore (1858–1929) Kate Chopin (1851–1904) Opie Pope Read (1852–1939) Bob Cole (1868–1911) Miss Howard Weeden (1846–1905) Martha Sawyer Gielow (1860–1933) Helen Bannerman (1862–1946) Alice ­Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935) Will N. Harben (1858–1919) Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) Martha Strudwick Young (1862–1941) John Charles McNeill (1874–1907) Frederick H. Seymour (1850–1913) James D. Corrothers (1869–1917) W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) Ella Middleton Tybout (1871–1952) Silas Xavier Floyd (1869–1923) William Marriner (1873–1914) John F. Dixon Jr. (1864–1946) Sara Cone Bryant (1873–?) Frances Boyd Calhoun (1867–1909) and Emma Speed Sampson (1868–1947) Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. (1861–1949) James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) Marion F. Harmon (1861–1940) B.B. Valentine (1862–1919) Julia Mead Peterkin (1880–1961) Robert Emmet Kennedy (1877–1941) Jane Baldwin Cotton (d. 1932) Nella Larsen (1891–1964) Charles E. Mack (1887–1934) Annie Vaughan Weaver (1905–1982) Inez Hogan (1895–1973) E.V. White (1879–1955) Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) Richard Wright (1908–1960) Ellen Tarry (1906–2008) Enid Blyton (1897–1968) Jackie Ormes (1911–1985) Ralph Ellison (1914–1994) James Baldwin (1924–1987) Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965) Index

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Valuable reference source...highly recommended --American Library Association; informative and extremely useful...recommended --ARBA; Drew explores the way white fiction writers wrote about black characters in the Jim Crow era --ProtoView.

Valuable reference source...highly recommended --<i>American Library Association</i>; informative and extremely useful...recommended --<i>ARBA</i>; Drew explores the way white fiction writers wrote about black characters in the Jim Crow era --<i>ProtoView</i>.

Author Information

Bernard A. Drew, an associate editor of The Lakeville Journal and its associated weekly newspapers in Northwest Connecticut, has written 50 books. He lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

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