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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, respectively (Turner 84, 237). Edward King, who is credited with "discovering" Cable during an 1873 excursion to the U.S. South under assignment from Scribner'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 Creoles1 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 documenter of the departing culture, a culture that must be sacrificed in order to accommodate the future of the newly reunified nation. 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

Padgett, Ieva
The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 47 (2) – Nov 8, 2015
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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, respectively (Turner 84, 237). Edward King, who is credited with "discovering" Cable during an 1873 excursion to the U.S. South under assignment from Scribner'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 Creoles1 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 documenter of the departing culture, a culture that must be sacrificed in order to accommodate the future of the newly reunified nation.

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