The curse of caste, or, The slave bride : a rediscovered African American novel / by Julia C. Collins ; edited by William L. Andrews and Mitch Kachun.
2006
PS1359.C563 C65 2006 (Mapit)
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Title
The curse of caste, or, The slave bride : a rediscovered African American novel / by Julia C. Collins ; edited by William L. Andrews and Mitch Kachun.
Author
Collins, Julia C., -1865.
ISBN
9780195301601 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0195301609 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780195301595 (alk. paper)
0195301595 (alk. paper)
0195301609 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780195301595 (alk. paper)
0195301595 (alk. paper)
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Language
English
Description
lxviii, 139 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
PS1359.C563 C65 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.6
Summary
In 1865, The Christian Recorder, the national newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serialized The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, a novel written by Mrs. Julia C. Collins, an African American woman living in the small town of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The first novel ever published by a black American woman, it is set in antebellum Louisiana and Connecticut and focuses on the lives of a beautiful mixed-race mother and daughter whose opportunities for fulfillment through love and marriage are threatened by slavery and caste prejudice. The text shares much with popular nineteenth-century womenʾs fiction, while its dominant themes of interracial romance, hidden African ancestry and ambiguous racial identity have parallels in the writings of both black and white authors from the period. Begun in the waning months of the Civil War, the novel was near its conclusion when Julia Collins died of tuberculosis in November of 1865. In this firs-ever book publication of The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, the editors have composed a hopeful and a tragic ending, reflecting two alternatives Collins almost certainly would have considered for the closing of her unprecedented novel. In their introduction, the editors offer the most complete and current research on the life and community of an author who left few traces in the historical record and provide extensive discussion of her novelʾs literary and historical significance. Collinsʾs published essays, which provide intriguing glimpses into the mind of this gifted but overlooked writer, are included in what will prove to be the definitive edition of a major new discovery in African American literature, religion, womenʾs history, community life and race relations during the era of the United States emancipation. Book jacket.
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Table of Contents
Editorsʾ Introduction
Notes to Introduction
Editorial Note by Anne Bruder
The Curse of Caste: or The Slave Bride, 1865
Two Conclusions to The Curse of Caste
The Essays of Julia C. Collins, 1864-1865
Reading Group Guide.
Notes to Introduction
Editorial Note by Anne Bruder
The Curse of Caste: or The Slave Bride, 1865
Two Conclusions to The Curse of Caste
The Essays of Julia C. Collins, 1864-1865
Reading Group Guide.