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Mary E. Mebane | |
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| Born | Mary Elizabeth Mebane June 26, 1933 Durham County, North Carolina, United States |
| Died | March 5, 1992 (aged 58) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central University |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, activist |
| Years active | 1950 |
https://archive.org/search?query=%22Mary+Mebane%22&sin=TXT Mary Elizabeth Mebane (June 26, 1933 — March 5, 1992) is an African-American writer.
Early life
Mary Mebane was born on June 26, 1933, in Durham County, North Carolina, United States to a farmer, who sold junks for money. She had her PhD from North Carolina University and became a Professor of English.[1] Mary wrote many works on feminism and about African Americans. In 1971, she wrote an Op-ed for The New York Times, where she told the story of a bus driver dated in 1940. Since then, it reached the emergence of Mary (1981), and Mary Warfarer (1983).[1]
Styles and theme
https://southernchanges.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/sc06-2_001/sc06-2_007/
Selected works
- ——— (1999). Mary : an autobiography. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. p. 242. ISBN 978-0-8078-4821-0. OCLC 123280990.
- ——— (1999). Mary, wayfarer : an autobiography. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. p. 230. ISBN 978-0-8078-4822-7. OCLC 222012666.
- ——— (1981). In Carolina : growing up black in the '40s. Los Angeles: Time Inc. OCLC 501174742.
- ———; Spencer, Elizabeth; Crews, Harry; Welty, Eudora; Mason, Bobbie Ann; Pérez Firmat, Gustavo; Kenan, Randall; Hoffman, William; Walker, Alice; Smith, Lee; Grau, Shirley Ann; Gilchrist, Ellen; Hood, Mary; Wright, Richard; O'Connor, Flannery; Taylor, Peter; Godwin, Gail; Malone, Michael; McCorkle, Jill; Faulkner, William; Mebane, Mary E.; Moody, Anne; Williams, Joan; Gates, Henry Louis; Gaines, Ernest J. (2003). Growing up in the South : an anthology of modern Southern literature. New York, US: NAL. ISBN 978-0-451-52873-5. OCLC 1016107294.
- ——— (1962). Existential themes in Ellison's Invisible man and Wright's The outsider. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. OCLC 12410217.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ——— (1973). Family in the works of Charles W. Chesnutt and Richard Wright. OCLC 8009483.
Reviews
- ——— (1973), Book Review: Black English: Its History and Usage in the United States, OCLC 9971927602
References
- ^ a b "Back of The Bus by Mary Mebane" (PDF). Fairfield. p. 72.
Citations
- https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/K_Weyler_Creating_1997.pdf
- https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04359/
- https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/24/resources/3229
- Sparks, Summar C. (2010). "Quite Contrary: The Cultivation of Self in Mary Mebane's Autobiography". The Southern Literary Journal. 43 (1). University of North Carolina Press: 92–108. doi:10.1353/slj.2010.0010. ISSN 0038-4291. JSTOR 41057657. Retrieved May 23, 2024 – via Project Muse.
- Crews, Harry (March 29, 1981). "GROWING UP BLACK". The New York Times. Manhattan, New York City, US. ISSN 0362-4331. OCLC 1645522. Retrieved May 23, 2024.
- "Mary Mebane Character Analysis". Internet Public Library. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. May 12, 2021. Retrieved May 23, 2024.
- Mary: An Autobiography by Mary E. Mebane. San Francisco, California, U.S: Mother Jones. April 1981. ISSN 0362-8841. Retrieved May 23, 2024.