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This review is from: Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston (Paperback)
Like Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Grady? Don't miss this much under-appreciated masterpiece by the man who started the Charleston Renaissance. Stories culled from the oral tradition of the Low Country's important Gullah culture, this book is an exhilarating alternative to the infinitely heavy and guilt-ridden tomes of Toni Morrison (Bennett was also from Ohio) for any serious student of Afro-American and Southern history. It includes original sketches of landscapes and portraits of black corroborators which firmly ground the stories in local history and folk culture. But this is not just a book for regionalists! One can't help but be impressed with Bennett's phenomenal interest, dedication, and erudition even if he was a bit self absorbed. The new edition, published by the University of South Carolina, is introduced with a lucid piece by Professor and Librarian Thomas L. Johnson.
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Great folklore,
By Andre M. "brnn64" (Mt. Pleasant, SC United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston (Paperback)
Being from the Mt. Pleasant/Charleston area myself, I can vouch that this as a great collection of Black Charleston folklore. I know some of the areas that are spoken of in this tales. Essentially, Bennett, a sympathetic white Ohioan, collected these tales from African-Americans in Charleston in the early 1900s, but since this was the dark days of segregation and he chose not to patronize the tellers of these tales and treated them with dignity, he and these stories were scorned by White Charleston's establishment until he published this book in 1943.
Even without this basic history, these are wonderfully entertaining stories of ghosts, lost loves, and divine revenge that will be a hit at your next halloween party or your (older) children at bedtime. Read, learn, and enjoy.
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This review is from: Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston (Paperback)
a fascinating story about a leading Charleston physician who falls in love with the ghost of a woman long since dead and buried. He becomes so obsessed with the condition of the dead that he ostracizes the conventional medical community and devotes the rest of his life to their care
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NINETY YEARS AGO THERE STOOD IN KING STREET, IN THE town of Charleston, South Carolina, a curiously narrow house. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black constable, graveyard fence, barrier rail, gray man Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hein Ryngo, Louie Alexander, Mazyck Street, Margot Lagoux, King Street, Theodore Dinkins, Mary Simmons, Père Damien, Trapman Street, Trumbo's Court, Marguerite Lagoux, Rolling Rio, Army of the Dead, Drunken Dick, Jack Warren, John Domingo, Lilac Lane, Caesar Grant, Market Street, South Carolina, Walter Mayrant, West Indian, Dicky Brux, God Almighty, Jesus of Nazareth New!
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NINETY YEARS AGO THERE STOOD IN KING STREET, IN THE town of Charleston, South Carolina, a curiously narrow house. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black constable, graveyard fence, barrier rail, gray man Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hein Ryngo, Louie Alexander, Mazyck Street, Margot Lagoux, King Street, Theodore Dinkins, Mary Simmons, Père Damien, Trapman Street, Trumbo's Court, Marguerite Lagoux, Rolling Rio, Army of the Dead, Drunken Dick, Jack Warren, John Domingo, Lilac Lane, Caesar Grant, Market Street, South Carolina, Walter Mayrant, West Indian, Dicky Brux, God Almighty, Jesus of Nazareth New!
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- Master Skylark by John Bennett in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Now and Then: POEMS 1976-78 by Robert Penn Warren on page 210
- The Treasure of Peyre Gaillard by John Bennett in Front Matter
- Black Border, The: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast by Ambrose E. Gonzales in Front Matter
- DuBose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess by James M. Hutchisson on page 22, and Back Matter
- A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston by Stephanie E. Yuhl in Back Matter
- Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner) by Virginia Hamilton on page 111
- Mythatypes: Signatures and Signs of African/Diaspora and Black Goddesses (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) by Alexis Brooks De Vita on page 70
- Signs of Diaspora / Diaspora of Signs: Literacies, Creolization, and Vernacular Practice in African America (Commonwealth Center Studies in American Culture) by Grey Gundaker in Back Matter
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