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“Cora Unashamed” is about a Black woman in a rural Midwestern town who feels trapped by her dependence on her white employers. Through the loss of her own child and the eventual death of the white child she has helped raise, Cora confronts cultural expectations of humility and shame.
Cora Unashamed is a 2000 American made-for-television drama film from The American Collection directed by Deborah Pratt, starring Regina Taylor and Cherry Jones. The film was shot on location in October 1999 in central Iowa.
- Alt Films, WGBH
- Langston Hughes (short story), Ann Peacock (teleplay)
It was summer.€ A few blocks beyond the Studevant's house, meadows and orchards and sweet fields stretched away to the far horizon, at night, stars in the velvet sky.€ Moon sometimes.€ Crickets and katydids and lightning bugs.€ The scent of grass.€ Cora waiting.€ That boy, Joe, a cigarette spark far off, whistling in the dark ...
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Cora Unashamed. By Langston Hughes, first published in The American Mercury . In a town so small it can hardly be called a town, a black woman serves a rich white family until a series of horrific events causes the single joy in her life to vanish. Author. Langston Hughes.
Cora Unashamed. Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1933. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.
Summary. Background. Story Analysis. Character Analysis. Themes. Symbols & Motifs. Literary Devices. Important Quotes. Essay Topics. Character Analysis. Cora Jenkins. The story’s protagonist is Cora Jenkins, a 40-year-old African American woman living in a predominantly white, rural town.
Cora Unashamed ★★½ 2000. Adaptation of the Langston Hughes short story that finds racism and tragedy in a small Iowa town in the 1930s. Cora Jenkins (Taylor) and her mother (Pounder) are the only blacks in the community. Cora works as a housekeeper for the Studevant family and becomes strongly attached to the family's daughter, Jessie ...
