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Chapter 7 - The Civil War’s Literary Aftershocks

George Washington Cable

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2019

T. R. Johnson
Affiliation:
Tulane University, Louisiana
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The most celebrated literary figure of nineteenth-century New Orleans was George Washington Cable. From his early work on mixed-race mothers coping with their light-skinned daughters’ abilities to pass back and forth between white and black communities to his discovery and national dissemination via Scribner’s to his masterpiece, The Grandissimes, its hostile reception in Creole New Orleans, and Cable’s consequent departure from the city and then his final reconciliation: Cable’s life stands as the most literary life in the New Orleans of that era. Cable’s engagement with the issue of race presages some of the discourse surrounding the topic today, with his particular attention to institutional racism and the often subtle, even unconscious ways that racism is perpetuated in ordinary, daily life.

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New Orleans
A Literary History
, pp. 82 - 95
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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