George Washington Cable (1844–1925)
Auteur de The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Crédit image: 1915 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-102501)
Œuvres de George Washington Cable
The silent South, together with The freedman's case in equity and The convict lease system (1969) 5 exemplaires
Tite Poulette und andere Kreolengeschichten 4 exemplaires
The busy man's bible and how to study and teach it 1 exemplaire
Works of George Washington Cable 1 exemplaire
The Negro Question 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Cable, George Washington
- Autres noms
- Lazarus, Felix
Shot, Drop - Date de naissance
- 1844-10-12
- Date de décès
- 1925-01-31
- Lieu de sépulture
- Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Lieu du décès
- St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
- Études
- self-educated
- Professions
- novelist
short-story writer
essayist
journalist
historian
soldier (Confederate Army ∙ Civil War) (tout afficher 13)
customhouse clerk
grocery clerk-cashier
state surveyor
secretary to the New Orleans Oil Works Company
columnist
reporter
bookkeeper - Relations
- Twain, Mark (friend)
Brewster, Murr (great granddaughter) - Organisations
- Confederate Army
New Orleans Picayune
Home-Culture Club (renamed Northampton People's Institute)
New Orleans Oil Works Company
William C. Black and Company - Prix et distinctions
- Washington and Lee University (DLitt|1882)
Yale University (AM|1883)
Yale University (DLitt|1901)
Bowdoin College (DLitt|1904)
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- Œuvres
- 33
- Aussi par
- 11
- Membres
- 777
- Popularité
- #32,752
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 8
- ISBN
- 269
- Langues
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- Favoris
- 1
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