Mamba's Daughters - (Southern Classics) by Dubose Heyward (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Doyle places Mamba's Daughters in its historical context and suggests that in the novel, Heyward challenges the harsh, unjust aspects of Southern race relations.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>The author of </b><b><i>Porgy</i></b><b> portrays Charleston's comic social climbers</p><p></b>When Mamba appears on the Wentworth doorstep, this shrewd woman takes the first step in surmounting a social barrier as thorny as any in early twentieth-century Charleston. For the sake of her family, Mamba navigates a comic, calculated path to the privelged class of African-Americans employed by Charleston's aristocratic white families.</p><p>Set in the early twentieth-century, this classic novel transcends racial boundaries by intertwining the stories of three very different families in an amusing plot of deception, ambition, and social transformation.</p><p>A new introduction by Don H. Doyle places <i>Mamba's Daughters</i> in its historical context and suggests that in the novel, Heyward challenges the harsh, unjust aspects of Southern race relations.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>One of the foremost literary figures of the early twentieth-century, <b> DuBose Heyward</b> (1885-1940) is best known for his novel <i>Porgy, </i> from which George Gershwin created the popular opera <i>Porgy and Bess.</i></p>
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