Tragedies of life
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Author
Contributions
- Scott, Anne, 1900- - Contributor
Publication
1997 - G.K. Hall, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
60,750 words, Guess
Page Count
243 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1116069M
- ISBN-100816116342
- OCLC Control Number503177636
- OCLC Control Numbertragediesoflife0000pitt
- Library of Congress Control Number94042140
and 1 more
- Goodreads6538911
Classifications
- DDC813/.520809287/08996073
- LCCPS647.A35 P58 1995
Alternate Titles
- George Samson Brite.
- Case 999, a Christmas story.
Description
Although biographical information on the lives and critical analysis of the works of Gertrude Pitts and Anne Scott is scarce, the recent rediscovery of these two writers helps to fill a gap in African-American literary and cultural history. Pitts's Tragedies of Life (1939), a narrative fiction and drama in three acts, is an unusually structured cautionary tale of an African-American family's journey from slavery to freedom, and the complex consequences and unfortunate twists of fate, struggle, and sacrifice that complicate upward mobility. Scott's novel George Sampson Brite (1939) recounts the antics of a recalcitrant school boy and reveals the mores, values, and attitudes of his Depression-era community. Finally, in the short story "Case 999 - A Christmas Story" (1952), Scott tells of an inner-city youth orphaned by racial violence and made a victim of both the social welfare system and of street gangs.
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Series Statement
- African American women writers, 1910-1940
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- Tragedies of life
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