Dark symphony, and other works
By: Elizabeth Laura Adams ; edited and with an introduction by Carla Kaplan.
Contributors: Kaplan, Carla.
Series: African-American women writers, 1910-1940
Publisher: G.K. Hall & Co.
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Adams, Elizabeth Laura.; African American women -- Literary collections.; African Americans -- Literary collections.; African American women -- Biography.; Catholic converts -- Biography.
Genres: Literary collections.; Biography.
Description: Dark Symphony (1942), the autobiography of Catholic-convert Elizabeth Laura Adams (1909-?), has as its central motif the author's search for spiritual peace while faced, to a certain degree, with racial discrimination. Also included in this volume are several of Adams's stories, articles, and poems, and draft excerpts from her autobiography as published in the Catholic journal The Torch.
Table of contents: title: Dark symphony; title: The finding of a soul; title: Until I find you; title: Consecrated; title: Yes, I'm colored; title: "There must be a God ... somewhere"; title: Our colored servants; title: The summons; title: The country doctor; title: "She talks like we do!"; title: Hypocrisy; title: The last supper.