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Bontemps (Noun)

Meaning

United States writer (1902-1973).

Classification

Nouns denoting people.

Examples

  • Erskine Caldwell's novel "In Search of Bigger Game" compares with the early novels of Arna Bontemps whose characters sense an undefined place of refuge within themselves.
  • The children's story by Arna Bontemps, "Bontemps, or The Story of a Creole Family" showed the cruel harsh treatment during a deadly yellow epidemic in St. Rose Parish, Louisiana.
  • The novel "Black Thunder" (1936) is Arna Bontemps's re-telling of the ill-fated slave uprising led by Gabriel in 1800 in Richmond, Virginia.
  • In the novel "God Sends Sunday" (1931) Arna Bontemps drew on his Louisiana Creole heritage in the characterization of the legendary Black jockey, Augie.
  • Arna Bontemps was deeply grieved by Langston Hughes's death because Arna himself knew if only vaguely what Langston may have felt but Arna could not verbalize such sad emotions well.

Synonyms

  • Arna Wendell Bontemps
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