Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess
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Pages: 266
Illustrations: 12 b&w images
Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in
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Pub Date: 06/15/2024
ISBN: 9-780-8203-6288-5
List Price: $29.95
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Pub Date: 06/15/2024
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Pub Date: 06/15/2024
ISBN: 9-780-8203-6289-2
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American
Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess
A literary and cultural history of the Gullah Geechee Coast
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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.
—Keith Cartwright, author of Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales
—Heather L. Hodges, director of external relations at the Historic New Orleans Collection and former executive director of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor NHA