The Marengo Jake stories : the tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton /

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Between 1885 and 1894 The Montgomery Advertiser, The Birmingham-Age Herald, and The New Orleans Times Democrat featured a series of about 80 humorous black-dialect sketches by Robert Wilton Burton, a bookseller and writer from Auburn, Alabama. According to Burton, these tales were based on various c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burton, Robert Wilton, 1848-1917
Otros Autores: Mitchell, Jake
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, [2007]
Temas:
1800-1899
African Americans > Fiction.
Enslaved persons > Alabama > Fiction.
Noirs américains > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Esclaves > Alabama > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
African Americans
Manners and customs
Enslaved persons
Auburn (Ala.) > Fiction.
Marengo County (Ala.) > Fiction.
Alabama > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction.
Alabama > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Alabama
Alabama > Auburn
Alabama > Marengo County
Fiction
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; A Note on the Texts; The "Marengo Jake" Stories; M'renger; M'reener: How Uncle Jake Interviewed a "High-Drawin'" Ram; Marengo Mud: Old Jake's Story of the Bottomless Slough; Three Little Boys and Three Little Fishes; Marengo Jake Plays Another Trick on the Three Boys; Seismic Phenomena
  • Explained by a Marengo Scientist; Christmas in Marengo; Jake and Miss Emmer; Tripping Jake; The Marengo Prestidigitator; Marengo Jake: A Romance of Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds; Jake Cornered; A True Story: How Marengo Jake Elected Cleveland.

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