Author : Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 082223226X
Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon. But the evil overseer M’Closky has other plans—for both Terrebonne and Zoe. In 1859, a famous Irishman wrote this play about slavery in America. Now an American tries to write his own.
Author : Dion Boucicault
Publisher : Litres
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 11,42 MB
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 5040658508
Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 36,22 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Louisiana
ISBN :
Author : Dion Boucicault
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 49,48 MB
Release : 2020-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752341386
Reproduction of the original: The Octoroon by Dion Boucicault
Author : Hezekiah Lord Hosmer
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 1863
Category : African American women
ISBN :
Author : Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 22,26 MB
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822231913
Every estranged member of the Lafayette clan has descended upon the crumbling Arkansas homestead to settle the accounts of the newly-dead patriarch. As his three adult children sort through a lifetime of hoarded mementos and junk, they collide over clutter, debt, and a contentious family history. But after a disturbing discovery surfaces among their father's possessions, the reunion takes a turn for the explosive, unleashing a series of crackling surprises and confrontations.
Author : Mayne Reid
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 2023-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Father of Waters! I know thee well. In the land of a thousand lakes, on the summit of the “Hauteur de terre,” I have leaped thy tiny stream. Upon the bosom of the blue lakelet, the fountain of thy life, I have launched my birchen boat; and yielding to thy current, have floated softly southward. I have passed the meadows where the wild rice ripens on thy banks, where the white birch mirrors its silvery stem, and tall coniferae fling their pyramid shapes, on thy surface. I have seen the red Chippewa cleave thy crystal waters in his bark canoe—the giant moose lave his flanks in thy cooling flood—and the stately wapiti bound gracefully along thy banks. I have listened to the music of thy shores—the call of the cacawee, the laugh of the wa-wa goose, and the trumpet-note of the great northern swan. Yes, mighty river! Even in that far northern land, thy wilderness home, have I worshipped thee!...FROM THE BOOKS.
Author : Emily Clark
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 11,91 MB
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1469607530
Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a "quadroon," she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex. However, as Emily Clark shows, the rich archives of New Orleans tell a different story. Free women of color with ancestral roots in New Orleans were as likely to marry in the 1820s as white women. And marriage, not concubinage, was the basis of their family structure. In The Strange History of the American Quadroon, Clark investigates how the narrative of the erotic colored mistress became an elaborate literary and commercial trope, persisting as a symbol that long outlived the political and cultural purposes for which it had been created. Untangling myth and memory, she presents a dramatically new and nuanced understanding of the myths and realities of New Orleans's free women of color.
Author : Dion Boucicault
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Drama
ISBN :
"The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana. A Play in Five acts" by Dion Boucicault. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Richard L. Jr. Breen
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2001-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595195199
A beautiful octoroon child-woman on the auction block, the dead outlaw she's in love with, a young Kipling sent to America on a secret mission by Queen Victoria, and a perfectly dead family living comfortably in a luxurious brothel that offers the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, a lighthouse on the Irish Sea, and a sunken Spanish galleon as simple nuances. Meet Tolstoy, Gauguin, and a Russian circus giant, members of the recently formed New James Gang, as they rob the Bank of New Orleans with a magical brush stroke. Then there's Lady Richter, expatriate madam, in love with the tall black piano player dead for years, but still playing in the main parlor. And Allen Pinkerton, renowned detective, transformed into a bird, thwarted again. Invigorating ski jaunts down the ice mountains of Pluto, torrid love sessions under Big Ben, and the supernatural electrical storm that disrupts the Octoroon Ball are just a few of the defining moments necessary for these people to come in touch with the bookmarks of their souls, and the strangely simple meaning of life itself.
