Project Gutenberg 2011-05-05 Public domain in the USA. 77 Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) 1872 1933 Griggs, Sutton Elbert Overshadowed: A Novel E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) "Overshadowed: A Novel" by Sutton E. Griggs is a work of fiction written in the early 20th century. The story centers around Erma Wysong, a young Negro woman grappling with her identity in a society that treats her and her people with prejudice and hostility. The novel explores themes of race, class, and the struggle for self-recognition against the backdrop of societal expectations and limitations. At the start of the narrative, Erma is depicted as a troubled soul, conflicted by her emotions and the harsh realities of her life as a member of a marginalized group. She is introduced in her parlor, where she paces restlessly, lost in thought as she contemplates her future and her feelings for a young man named Astral Herndon. The opening chapters reveal her descent into despair upon realizing the societal disdain for her decision to seek employment in servitude, reflecting the internalized beliefs about race and the stigma attached to labor. Griggs sets the stage for a tragic exploration of Erma's struggles as she attempts to reconcile her aspirations with the oppressive societal structures that overshadow her existence. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/36033/36033-h/images/cover.jpg en African Americans -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 289713 289462 2024-09-15T09:42:37.837496 2023-09-16T03:41:07.294278 text/html text/html 289250 2011-05-05T11:38:46 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 303888 2011-05-05T11:43:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 340688 2024-09-15T09:42:42.205495 application/epub+zip 342649 2024-09-15T09:42:38.580520 application/epub+zip 185890 2024-09-15T09:42:38.183551 application/epub+zip 448039 2024-09-15T09:42:45.426462 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 419606 2024-09-15T09:42:41.858489 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 263062 2022-09-16T13:07:07.904471 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 273908 273687 2024-09-15T09:42:37.433500 2023-09-16T03:41:06.926288 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 273553 2011-05-05T11:35:43 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 107693 2011-05-05T11:35:43 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18558 2024-09-15T09:42:45.557446 application/rdf+xml 23242 2024-09-15T09:42:38.269483 image/jpeg 3337 2024-09-15T09:42:38.225482 image/jpeg 302740 2024-09-15T09:42:37.867492 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia