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Dark symphony and other works
- Title
- Dark symphony and other works / Elizabeth Laura Adams ; edited and with an introduction by Carla Kaplan.
- Author
- Adams, Elizabeth Laura.
- Publication
- New York : G.K. Hall ; London : Prentice Hall International, [1997], ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3501.D2182 A6 1997 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Kaplan, Carla.
- Description
- lviii, 282 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Dark Symphony (1942), the autobiography of Catholic-convert Elizabeth Laura Adams (1909-?), has as its central motif the author's search for spiritual peace while faced, to a certain degree, with racial discrimination. Also included in this volume are several of Adams's stories, articles, and poems, and draft excerpts from her autobiography as published in the Catholic journal The Torch.
- Series Statement
- African-American women writers, 1910-1940
- Uniform Title
- African-American women writers, 1910-1940.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction: "I Wanna March" / Carla Kaplan -- Dark Symphony -- The Finding of a Soul -- Until I Find You -- Consecrated -- Yes, I'm Colored -- "There Must Be a God...Somewhere" -- Our Colored Servants -- The Summons -- The Country Doctor -- "She Talks Like We Do!" -- Hypocrisy -- The Last Supper.
- ISBN
- 0783814291 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96043471
- OCLC
- 35638612
- ocm35638612
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries