Jubilee (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Walker
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Plot: Historical realism
- Time of Work: The 1840’s through the 1860’s
- Setting: Dawson, Georgia, and Abbeville, Troy, Luverne, and Greenville, in south-central Alabama
- Principal Characters: Vyry, Randall Ware, Innis Brown, John Morris Dutton, Salina (Big Missy) Dutton, Lillian Dutton, Johnny Dutton, Ed Grimes
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Biographical fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Freedom, Racism, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Marriage, Plantations or plantation life, Women’s issues, Civil War, Christianity, Women, Ku Klux Klan, Reconstruction, Remarriage
- Locales: South (U.S.), Abbeville, AL, Dawson, GA, Greenville, AL, Luverne, AL, Troy, AL
The Novel
Jubilee follows the protagonist, Vyry, from the age of two, when her twenty-nine-year-old mother dies after having borne fifteen children, many of them to the master of the plantation, through the Civil War and Emancipation, finally leaving her in her own home at Greenville, Alabama, with the knowledge that her children will be educated. The novel is unified by the central character Vyry, who comes to represent all of the thwarted aspirations of the slaves; by the continuing associations of the principal characters who survive into the Reconstruction period;...
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