Mother Wit

Beschreibung

The Federal Writers' Project, created during the Great Depression of the 1930s, hired unemployed white collar workers to write guidebooks to each state and major city. Some projects interviewed former slaves. Although these slave narratives have been published, those of the Louisiana Writers' Project have lain dormant for almost fifty years.
For the first time these narratives appear in print. They provide a graphic and moving portrait of life during and after slavery. The narrators describe punishment, marriage, religion, food, medical treatment and cures, funerals, war, education, witchcraft, spirits, and other subjects.
The fascinating story that emerges is one that no novelist could contrive nor historian construe. Voices once mute, pens once stilled, leap to life. For it is their story - those former slaves, and their work - those members of the LWP - their most enduring legacy.

Autor*in

Ronnie W. Clayton

Themen in »Mother Wit«

Louisiana Mother Narratives Project Slave Writers

Stimmen zu »Mother Wit«

«Hier werden nicht nur unwiederbringliche Berichte von Zeitzeugen festgehalten..., die von unschätzbarer Bedeutung für die weitere Forschung sind, sondern zugleich wird eine Traditionslinie fortgesetzt, die bis ins vergangene Jahrhundert zurückreicht.» (Doris Dziwas, Referatedienst zur Literaturwissenschaft)

()

Details

Link teilen