Description
The author of Porgy portrays Charleston's comic social climbers
When Mamba appears on the Wentworth doorstep, this shrewd woman takes the first step in surmounting a social barrier as thorny as any in early twentieth-century Charleston. For the sake of her family, Mamba navigates a comic, calculated path to the privelged class of African-Americans employed by Charleston's aristocratic white families.
Set in the early twentieth-century, this classic novel transcends racial boundaries by intertwining the stories of three very different families in an amusing plot of deception, ambition, and social transformation.
A new introduction by Don H. Doyle places Mamba's Daughters in its historical context and suggests that in the novel, Heyward challenges the harsh, unjust aspects of Southern race relations.
Author: Dubose Heyward
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 03/03/1995
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 7.53h x 5.05w x 1.06d
ISBN13: 9781570030420
ISBN10: 1570030421
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
About the Author
One of the foremost literary figures of the early twentieth-century, DuBose Heyward (1885-1940) is best known for his novel Porgy, from which George Gershwin created the popular opera Porgy and Bess.