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The Columbia History of the American NovelDuBose Heyward attended to another aspect of race in South Carolina, the urban African American community struggling against poverty and marginalization. In his best-received novel, Porgy (1925), he explored the interactions among the black residents of Charleston's Catfish Row. Following the success of Porgy and its adaptation for the Broadway stage, Heyward wrote Mamba's Daughter's (1929), which, though continuing the focus of his first novel, was less well received, in part because by the end of the 1920s African Americans were producing more complex portraits of their own people and culture. Significantly, Mencken's identification of the South as a field for fiction awaiting discovery can be linked to the turning to racial material in writers outside the South. Waldo Frank and Jean Toomer are two of the writers who turned for the matter of their fiction to the richness of the South and to race as a complication in realistic explorations of the region. Frank and Toomer traveled together through the South with the intention of gathering materials for their writing ...» |
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