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by James D. Corrothers. illustrated by JK Bryans. Includes wonderful B&W illustrations of cats on almost every page margin James David Corrothers (1869–1917) was an African-American poet. Features eight full page B&W silhouette illustrations including frontis. Includes wonderful B&W illustrations of cats on almost every page margin. From the preface: "This book is intended as a series of character studies of Negro life as it may be observed int he great cities of the North. When he died, W. E. B. Du Bois eulogized him as "a serious loss to the race and to literature. Written in African-American Vernacular English.

James D Corrothers, J K Bryans. This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. The Author Was An Midwest Born African American. He Counted Amongst His Friends Paul Laurence Dunbar And Frederick Douglass. This Is Corrother's Only Work Of Fiction.

B. He met Frederick Douglass at the 1893 World Columbian gained early fame with his volume of poetry in "Negro dialect" but later expressed his regret about the volume. Corrothers thought that poetry in "standard English" was more appropriate for the twentieth century. In 1922, James Weldon Johnson published seven poems by Corrothers in the anthology The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922).

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When he died, W. Corrothers was born in Michigan and grew up in a small town of anti-slavery activists who settled before the war. He attended Northwestern University in Chicago but left to work as a newspaper reporter.

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One such text is James D. Corrothers's 1902 dialect novel The Black Cat Club

One such text is James D. Corrothers's 1902 dialect novel The Black Cat Club. Growing out of an earlier series of newspaper pieces, and set in the Chicago ghetto, Corrothers's book focuses on the antics and adventures of a distinctly lower-class and not-too-literary "literary society," led by a self-taught dialect poet named Sandy Jenkins, also known as "Doc. On the one hand, as its subtitle promises, it is heavily based on "Negro humor and folklore," and with more fidelity than most other works from the period. Corrothers's episodes are structured around club meetings, the focus of which tends to be story-telling, and many of the stories are easily traceable to folk sources.

Du Bois, Claude McKay, Leslie Hill, James Corrothers, and many more. This is a Librivox recording. org/ As a member of the partnership program, I earn from purchases that meet the requirements.