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Tuscaloosa : University Alabama Press, [2014]

1 online resource (223 pages)

ISBN 9780817387174 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780817313388 (hardback)

Print version: Nagel, James. Race and culture in New Orleans stories : Kate Chopin, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and George Washington Cable. Tuscaloosa : University Alabama Press, [2014] xi, 208 pages ISBN 9780817313388

Includes bibliographical references and index

Machine generated contents note: Preface -- Introduction: The Historical Context -- 1. George Washington Cable’s Old Creole Days -- 2. Grace King and the Cultural Background of Balcony Stories -- 3. Alice Dunbar-Nelson and the New Orleans Story Cycle -- 4. Kate Chopin’s Bayou Folk -- Conclusion : The Literary Legacy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Nagel maintains that "local color" literature was meant to be the highest form of American writing, not the lowest, and its objective was to capture the locations, folkways, values, dialects, conflicts, and ways of life in the various regions of the country in order to show that the lives of common citizens were sufficiently important to be the subject of serious literature. Finally, Nagel shows that New Orleans provided a profoundly rich and complex setting for the literary exploration of some of the most crucial social problems in America, including racial stratification, social caste, economic exploitation, and gender roles, all of which were undergoing rapid transformation at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth"-- Provided by publisher..

"Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories posits that the Crescent City and the surrounding Louisiana bayous were a logical setting for the literary exploration of crucial social problems in America. Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories is a study of four volumes of interrelated short stories set in New Orleans and the surrounding Louisiana bayous: Kate Chopin’s Bayou Folk; George Washington Cable’s Old Creole Days; Grace King’s Balcony Stories; and Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories.-.

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