Train Whistle Guitar (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Albert Murray
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: Primarily the 1920’s
- Setting: Rural Alabama
- Principal Characters: Scooter, Little Buddy Marshall, Luzana Cholly, Miss Tee (Edie Bell Boykin), Deljean McCray
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: Children, Memory, Racism, Adolescence, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, South or Southerners, Education or educators, 1920’s, Violence, Death or dying, Jazz music, Heroes or heroism, Athletes, Trees
- Locales: Alabama
The Novel
Train Whistle Guitar offers a story of a black boy’s preadolescent and adolescent seasons in a small town deep in the South during the decade after World War I. The story is told by the man whom the boy has become, recounting his memories after he has gone away to college, served in World War II, and made somebody out of himself, as he was born marked to do. He has also been marked for life by his education in that small-town community and culture. The events of the story are the remembered highpoints in a daily dialogue, one carried out between the child...
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