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George W. Cable’s Gardens: Planting the Creole South and Uprooting the Nation

George W. Cable’s Gardens: Planting the Creole South and Uprooting the Nation George W. Cable’s Gardens: Planting the Creole South and Uprooting the Nation by Ieva Padgett Most of the individual pieces of George Washington Cable’s short story collections, Old Creole Days (1879) and Strange True Stories of Louisiana (1888), were originally published in Scribner’s Monthly and the Century, respec- Edward King, who is credited with “discovering” Cable tively (Turner 84, 237). during an 1873 excursion to the U.S. South under assignment fr Scribner om ’s Monthly, promoted the stories of the first collection to eastern publishers (52), and it was these stories in particular that established Cable as an expert on the lifestyle of a quaint regional culture, the Louisiana Creoles, as well as an astute interpreter of their dialect. Depicted in their natural habitat of the old New Orleans, a world of intricate wrought ironwork, cloistered courtyards, and subtle decadence, Cable’s Creoles seem to live in a time that is already past, a time to which George W. Cable is paying an eloquent, yet nevertheless final, farewell. Cable, thus interpreted, becomes not only a local colorist but also a doc - umenter of the departing culture, a culture that must be sacrificed in order to accommodate the future of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

George W. Cable’s Gardens: Planting the Creole South and Uprooting the Nation

The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 47 (2) – Nov 8, 2015

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University of North Carolina Press
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Copyright © 2008 the Southern Literary Journal and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of English.
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1534-1461

Abstract

George W. Cable’s Gardens: Planting the Creole South and Uprooting the Nation by Ieva Padgett Most of the individual pieces of George Washington Cable’s short story collections, Old Creole Days (1879) and Strange True Stories of Louisiana (1888), were originally published in Scribner’s Monthly and the Century, respec- Edward King, who is credited with “discovering” Cable tively (Turner 84, 237). during an 1873 excursion to the U.S. South under assignment fr Scribner om ’s Monthly, promoted the stories of the first collection to eastern publishers (52), and it was these stories in particular that established Cable as an expert on the lifestyle of a quaint regional culture, the Louisiana Creoles, as well as an astute interpreter of their dialect. Depicted in their natural habitat of the old New Orleans, a world of intricate wrought ironwork, cloistered courtyards, and subtle decadence, Cable’s Creoles seem to live in a time that is already past, a time to which George W. Cable is paying an eloquent, yet nevertheless final, farewell. Cable, thus interpreted, becomes not only a local colorist but also a doc - umenter of the departing culture, a culture that must be sacrificed in order to accommodate the future of the

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Published: Nov 8, 2015

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