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1925 novel by DuBose Heyward
This article is about the novel. For the 1927 stage adaptation, see
Porgy (play)
.
Porgy
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Author
| DuBose Heyward
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Language
| English
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Publication date
| 1925
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Publication place
| United States
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Porgy
is a novel written by the American author
DuBose Heyward
and published by the
George H. Doran Company
in 1925.
The novel tells the story of Porgy, a crippled street beggar living in the black tenements of
Charleston, South Carolina
, in the 1920s. The character was based on Charlestonian Samuel Smalls.
[1]
In some of the novel's passages, black characters speak in
Gullah
, a
creole language
that had developed among enslaved African Americans during the slavery years on the
Sea Islands
.
The novel was adapted for a
1927 play
of the same name by Heyward and his wife, playwright
Dorothy Heyward
. Even before completing the play, Heyward was in discussions with composer
George Gershwin
for an operatic version of his novel. This was produced in 1935 as
Porgy and Bess
(renamed to distinguish it from the play
[
citation needed
]
).
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