The Old South: "A Summer Tragedy" and Other Stories of the Thirties

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Dodd, Mead, 1973 - Fiction - 238 pages
Personal essays and short stories of the South.

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Contents

RETURNED A PERSONAL ESSAY I
27
LONESOME BOY SILVER TRUMPET
57
A WOMAN WITH A MISSION
71
Copyright

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The Old South: "A Summer Tragedy" and Other Stories of the Thirties
Arna Bontemps
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Arna Bontemps
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About the author (1973)

Arna Bontemps was one of many African American writers associated with Fisk University, where he taught for 20 years. He became a visiting professorship at Yale University and returned to Fisk to spend the last years of his life there. Bontemps grew up in the South and wrote of the condition and spirit of the southern black in memoirs and in fiction. His historical and topical novel Black Thunder (1936) is perhaps his best known, along with Drums at Dusk (1935). As an active leader in the Harlem Renaissance, however, Bontemps wrote prolifically in all genres and for children as well as adults. He produced several important collections of narratives about enslaved people and African American folk tales. Bontemps was a major anthologizer of Harlem Renaissance work and helped shape the new black writing as theoretician and critic. Bontemps died in 1973.

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TitleThe Old South: "A Summer Tragedy" and Other Stories of the Thirties
AuthorArna Bontemps
PublisherDodd, Mead, 1973
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMar 4, 2008
ISBN0396067883, 9780396067887
Length238 pages
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