Mamba's Daughters: A Novel of Charleston Contributor(s): Heyward, Dubose (Author), Doyle, Don (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1570030421 ISBN-13: 9781570030420 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1995 Annotation: Portrays Charleston's comic social climbers. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 94035503 |
Physical Information: 1.06" H x 5.05" W x 7.53" (0.91 lbs) 320 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. 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. A new introduction by Don H. 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. |