The Marengo Jake stories [[electronic resource] ] : the tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton / / Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton
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Burton Robert Wilton <1848-1917.>
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The Marengo Jake stories [[electronic resource] ] : the tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton / / Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton
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| Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, AL, : University of Alabama Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813.4 |
| 813/.4 | |
| Soggetto topico: | African Americans |
| Slaves - Alabama | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Auburn (Ala.) Fiction |
| Marengo County (Ala.) Fiction | |
| Alabama Social life and customs 19th century Fiction | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
MitchellJake
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| Note generali: | Previously published under title: De remnant truth, 1991. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Introduction; A Note on the Texts; The "Marengo Jake" Stories; M'renger; M'reener: How Uncle Jake Interviewed a "High-Drawin'" Ram; Marengo Mud: Old Jake's Story of the Bottomless Slough; Three Little Boys and Three Little Fishes; Marengo Jake Plays Another Trick on the Three Boys; Seismic Phenomena-Explained by a Marengo Scientist; Christmas in Marengo; Jake and Miss Emmer; Tripping Jake; The Marengo Prestidigitator; Marengo Jake: A Romance of Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds; Jake Cornered; A True Story: How Marengo Jake Elected Cleveland |
| Marengo Jake: He Tells About a Famous "Dry Drought"Marengo Jake: An Incident of the Wet Drouth in M'ringer; A Marengo Runaway; Dick and the Devil; A M'ringer Rat Story; Old Time Christmas; A Pig Tale; An Ass in a Lion's Skin; Birmingham Dirt; Looking Backward; A Mule as Was a Mule; An Eating Match; Jake's New House; A Legend: How Clarke Played It on Marengo; Underground Farming; Jake's Senses; Jake Heard From; A Lesson in Natural History; Miss Mary; or, The Value of Education; A Model School; Mosquitoes of Marengo; Lightning; An Abridged Narrative | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Between 1885 and 1894 The Montgomery Advertiser, The Birmingham-Age Herald, and The New Orleans Times Democrat featured a series of about 80 humorous black-dialect sketches by Robert Wilton Burton, a bookseller and writer from Auburn, Alabama. According to Burton, these tales were based on various characters in the black community of Auburn, and 36 of them were devoted exclusively to a character called ""Marengo Jake."" Probably originally from Virginia, Jake Mitchell was brought to the Drake Plantation in Marengo county as a boy in the 1850's. After the Civil War, th |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Marengo Jake stories |
| ISBN: | 0-8173-8034-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454725603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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