Mamba's Daughters: A Novel of Charleston

by DuBose Heyward

Book Overview

The author of Porgy portrays Charleston's comic social climbers

When Mamba appears on the Wentworth doorstep, this shrewd woman takes the first step in surmounting a social barrier as thorny as any in early twentieth-century Charleston. For the sake of her family, Mamba navigates a comic, calculated path to the privelged class of African-Americans employed by Charleston's aristocratic white families.

Set...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570030421
• ISBN13: 9781570030420
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 7.5"