George Washington Cable (1844–1925)
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Born and raised in New Orleans, in 1844, George Cable left school at age 14 and went to work to support his mother and sisters after his father's death. After serving in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, Cable worked at a variety of jobs before beginning to write. Attracted to certain visa mer aspects of Creole life, he was anxious to record this life before it entirely disappeared. His sympathies, however, did not extend to what he considered certain moral weaknesses in Creole civilization, particularly in its treatment of African Americans. As time went on, Cable began to speak out ever more openly on racial injustices in Louisiana and in the South generally. This brought a great deal of bitter criticism from fellow southerners and ultimately resulted in his moving to Massachusetts. His most explicit fictional treatment of racial injustice is probably John March: Southerner (1894), which he set in northern Alabama rather than Louisiana to emphasize the regional aspect of the racial problem. He also gave speeches, wrote letters to editors, and published articles on the problems of African-Americans in the South. Cable is especially well known for his stories about Creole life. His most successful literary work is The Grandissimes (1880), which has been compared in power and scope to the fiction of William Faulkner. The novel is somewhat marred by obvious editorializing and some wooden characterization, but it contains powerful scenes and deals with racial injustice, a subject all but taboo in the fiction of the time. Guy A. Cardwell has argued convincingly that Cable significantly altered Mark Twain's racial views when the two men were on a lecture tour together. Cable's treatment of race foreshadowed the work of such later Southern writers as Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren. Cable died in 1925. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Foto taget av: 1915 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-102501)
Verk av George Washington Cable
The silent South, together with The freedman's case in equity and The convict lease system (1969) 5 exemplar
Tite Poulette und andere Kreolengeschichten 4 exemplar
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- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Cable, George Washington
- Andra namn
- Lazarus, Felix
Shot, Drop - Födelsedag
- 1844-10-12
- Avled
- 1925-01-31
- Begravningsplats
- Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Dödsort
- St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
- Utbildning
- self-educated
- Yrken
- novelist
short-story writer
essayist
journalist
historian
soldier (Confederate Army ∙ Civil War) (visa alla 13)
customhouse clerk
grocery clerk-cashier
state surveyor
secretary to the New Orleans Oil Works Company
columnist
reporter
bookkeeper - Relationer
- Twain, Mark (friend)
Brewster, Murr (great granddaughter) - Organisationer
- Confederate Army
New Orleans Picayune
Home-Culture Club (renamed Northampton People's Institute)
New Orleans Oil Works Company
William C. Black and Company - Priser och utmärkelser
- Washington and Lee University (DLitt|1882)
Yale University (AM|1883)
Yale University (DLitt|1901)
Bowdoin College (DLitt|1904)
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The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life (Penguin… av George Washington Cable
A fun and well rendered tale of New Orleans in 1803-4, Creoles, Blacks, Quadroons, and Whites amongst the fascinating cast of characters. Sometimes the number of characters and the speech in dialect left me confused but it all fell together by the end.
En el escenario extravagante de la vieja Nueva Orleans, a fines del siglo XVIII, George Washington Cable nos cautiva con esta novela de contornos románticos y a la vez realistas. Desfilan por las páginas de este clásico de la literatura norteamericana, seres de ficción que pudieron ser reales or su convincente y auténtico color, de matices profundamente humanos: navegantes del Mississippi, tahures, caballeros y terratenientes sureños, hermosas mujeres con sangre negra, yankees desvaídos. Con el antecedente de haber sido el primer autor que se atrevió a escribir sobre la mezcla de razas, Cable, sureño él mismo, hace de este libro un documento tanto literario como histórico.… (mer)
Strange True Stories was written in 1888 when history was largely still a branch of literature and the boundaries between fact and fiction were not as clearly defined as today. Cable's stories are true, but one sees the author taking some editorial liberty and blurring the lines. In that sense it is like Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Cable inserted dialogue and dramatized the stories to pull in the reader and emphasize his message. As a white southerner in the post-reconstruction, Jim Crow, "New South" Cable mocked slavery and the hypocrisy of white supremacists, poked fun at the New Orleans elites, and promoted black civil rights through these stories.… (mer)
An amazing and enthralling read. Less florid (and much more 'readable') than most from that era. Recommend it highly to all. Brings history to life on a personal level. Reads like a historical novel but much more compelling as Cable sticks to the facts and cites his sources (though he does include one clearly identified case of local legend and folklore). The primary source 1780s diary and letters which he translated are priceless windows into the past (as is the civil war diary). A riveting eye-opener. I put this as one of my top ten amazing reads of the year. [Free E-Book available at Gutenberg.org and/or Archive.org]
"An old book was a time capsule... You only had to turn a page to travel back in time." - Steve Parrish… (mer)
"An old book was a time capsule... You only had to turn a page to travel back in time." - Steve Parrish… (mer)
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