A DuBose Heyward reader
By: edited and with an introduction by James M. Hutchisson.
Contributors: Hutchisson, James M.
Series: The publications of the Southern Texts Society
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism.; African Americans -- Literary collections.; African Americans in literature.; Southern States -- Literary collections.; Charleston (S.C.) -- Literary collections.; Southern States -- Intellectual life.; Southern States -- In literature.; Southern States -- Civilization.
Genres: Literary collections.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments xiii; title: List of Abbreviations Used in the Text xv; title: Introduction xvii CRITICAL WRITINGS; title: "Poetry South" (with Hervey Allen) 3; title: Preface to Carolina Chansons (with Hervey Allen) ii; title: "And Once Again-the Negro" 13; title: Foreword to the Year Book of the Poetry Society of South Carolina (1923) 17; title: "The New Note in Southern Literature" 22; title: "The American Negro in Art" 27; title: "The Negro in the Low-Country" 34; title: "Porgy and Bess Return on Wings of Song" 46; title: "Dock Street Theatre" 52; title: "Charleston: Where Mellow Past and Present Meet" 57 POETRY; title: FROM Carolina Chansons 75; title: "Silences" 75; title: "The Pirates" 77; title: "The Last Crew" 85; title: "Modern Philosopher" 94; title: "Gamesters All" 94; title: "Dusk" 98; title: FROM Skylines and Horizons 99; title: "Your Gifts" 99; title: "A Yoke of Steers" ioo; title: "The Mountain Woman" ioi; title: "The Mountain Preacher" IoI; title: "Black Christmas" 103; title: "New England Landscape" 103; title: "Suffrage" 104; title: "Weariness" 105; title: "Buzzard Island" 105; title: "Chant for an Old Town" 1o6; title: FROM Jasbo Brown and Selected Poems 113; title: "Jasbo Brown" 113; title: "Prodigal" 119; title: FROM Porgy andBess 120; title: "Summertime" 120; title: "My Man's Gone Now" 120; title: "A Woman Is a Sometime Thing" 12z FICTION; title: "The Brute" 125; title: FROM Porgy 133; title: Catfish Row and the Murder of Robbins 133; title: Porgy, Bess, and Sportin' Life 146; title: The Hurricane 155; title: Porgy's Heroism and His Loss 169; title: The Haf Pint Flask 181; title: FROM Mamba's Daughters: A Novel of Charleston 195; title: Hagar and Bluton 195; title: Lissa and the Black Elite 204; title: Lissa's Triumph 230; title: FROM Peter Ashley 236; title: Peter's Conflicted Identity 236; title: The Slave Market 246 Emendations in the Copy-Texts 261; title: Notes 265; title: Index 289.