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.