{"id":58057,"date":"2019-05-13T22:31:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T22:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58057"},"modified":"2019-05-14T15:15:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T15:15:13","slug":"red-bone-woman-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58057","title":{"rendered":"Red Bone Woman, A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Red Bone Woman, A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

John Day Company
\n1950
\n314 pages<\/p>\n

Carlyle Tillery (1904-1988)<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n

The Stark Novel Of A Swamp Girl And A Lonely White Man \u2014 Carries The Wallop Of Faulkner<\/a> And The Skills Of Caldwell<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Literary Guidepost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Corsicana Daily Sun<\/a>
\nCorsicana, Texas
\npage 18, column 2
\nThursday, 1950-04-06<\/p>\n

W. G. Rogers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Red Bone Woman<\/strong><\/em>, by Carlyle Tillery (John Day; $3.)<\/p>\n

Son George packs up and goes off to a city job: daughter Molly is already married to Bill; wife Rose has died. That leaves Mr. Randall all by himself on the big Randall place in Louisiana<\/a>, with a lot of his land exhausted, too much stock for one fellow to tend to and too many acres to plant.<\/p>\n

A man can go from lonesome to shiftless to worse, or he can figure, as Mr. Randall does, that he isn\u2019t finished just because he\u2019s abandoned, and that if the first family he raised has left him, there\u2019s time to raise a second.<\/p>\n

For he isn\u2019t so old, and he gets to thinking about the barefoot Red Bone<\/a> girl down the road a piece. She is Temple Hamper, who stands day after day fishing in the creek near where he hoes<\/a>. White women would rather live in the city, he has discovered; anyway, he isn\u2019t young enough nor well enough off for a white woman. So though he knows how some folks in his neighborhood feel about the Red Bones, or Spanish white as they call themselves, he ups and asks Temple how she\u2019d like to live in the big house with him.<\/p>\n

She would, she says. After they settle down to the daily chores in the fields together, after he becomes used to her ways about his home, ho decides, though it seems unnecessary to her, to marry her. That\u2019s pretty hard for George to take, and Molly won\u2019t take it at all. These Red Bones, with skin darker than whites\u2019 and lighter than negroes’, are almost illiterate. Temple, and Randall, too, are not educated enough to philosophize about race relations: they just solve them, for after all, they are intelligent. A determined couple, they make a happy life for themselves, a life so happy it is worth fighting for when a white-sheeted gang threatens it.<\/p>\n

They are a rare couple, too, simple and honest, trying doggedly to master their personal and social problems. Sharing in their delights and appalled at their tragedy, the reader will remember them with a lasting affection. Tillery is a name to add to the large list of distinguished southern writers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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