Category: 7. Literature; creative writing
by and/or about Lumbee people

384. Reising, R. W.  “Literary Depictions of Henry Berry Lowry: Mythic, Romantic, and Tragic.”  MELUS 17.1 (Spring 1991-1992): 87-103.

Publication type: Journal article

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Wide-ranging and perceptive, this essay analyzes seven published literary works depicting Lowry, including The Last of the Lowries, Swamp Outlaw, The Scuffletown Outlaws, The King of Scuffletoun, and Strike at the Wind! Reising compares these works to each other and notes literary parallels and influences on them, including Sir Walter Scott, John Rollin Ridge, Gladys A. Reichard, and the Trickster.

Additional subject discussed in this work: Lowry, Henry Berry

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