Appalachee Red (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Raymond Andrews
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social criticism
- Time of Work: 1918 through 1963
- Setting: Appalachee, Muskhogean County, Georgia
- Principal Characters: Appalachee Red, Baby Sweet Jackson, Clyde “Boots” White, Little Bit Thompson, John Morgan, Blue Thompson
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: African Americans, Power, personal or social, Abused persons, Biracial people, Crime or criminals, Gambling, Murder or homicide, Police, South or Southerners, Twentieth century
- Locales: Appalachee, GA, South (U.S.)
The Novel
Appalachee Red, the first part of Raymond Andrews’ “Muskhogean Trilogy,” traces the development of black life in the American South from just after World War I until the end of 1963. Although the novel is perhaps best described as tragicomic, it nevertheless presents the reader with many truths of the cultural, social, political, and historial milieus of the South during the first half of the twentieth century.
The novel opens in late autumn of 1918 when Big Man Thompson, a twenty-one-year-old black man, is arrested, tried, convicted, and...
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