Selected Gems of Poetry, Comedy and Drama
Subtitle: Aunt Sara's Wooden God (African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940)
Contributors: Susanne B. Dietzel (Introduction)
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Published: November 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780783814285
Subjects: Black studies; Literary studies: general; Literature: Texts; General; African American Literature; Literary Criticism; Poetry; English; American - General; USA; African American women; American - African American & Black; African Americans; Literary collections
Description: Mercedes Gilbert (1889-1952) was a well-known actress, playwright, songwriter, and novelist of her day, who has now undeservedly fallen into obscurity. Selected Gems (1931) is a collection of her work containing several monologues in dialect and lyric poems. Aunt Sara's Wooden God, published in 1938 with a foreword by Langston Hughes, is a novel depicting the "Cain and Abel" relationship between two brothers and the painful consequences for their mother.