The Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston

ISBN-13: 9781643361376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str.

John H. Bennett Jr; Julia Eichelberger

Spis treści

• Introduction: Remembering and Rewriting Gullah Narratives
• An Introductory Comment
• 1. The Doctor to the Dead
• 2. The Death of the Wandering Jew
• 3. Madame Margot
• 4. The Black Constable
• 5. Tales from the Trapman Street Hospital
• 6. All God's Chillen Had Wings
• 7. The Measure of Grief
• 8. The Enchanted Cloak
• 9. The Young Wife Whose Vine Meloned Beyond the Fence
• 10. Death and the Two Bachelors
• 11. When the Dead Sang in Their Graves
• 12. Rolling Rio and the Gray Man; Or, The Gift of Strength
• 13. The Remember Service
• 14. A Young Girl's Virtue Preserved by the Devil
• 15. Crook-Neck Dick
• 16. Louis Alexander
• 17. The Apothecary and The Mermaid
• 18. The Man Who Wouldn't Believe He Was Dead
• 19. Daid Aaron, I
• 20. Daid Aaron, II
• 21. Buried Treasure; Or, The Two Bold Fisherman