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Synopsis. Cast. Home media. References. External links. 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. Cities such as Ames, Cambridge and Story City were used.
- Alt Films, WGBH
- Langston Hughes (short story), Ann Peacock (teleplay)
Cora Unashamed is a 1933 story by Langston Hughes about a Black woman who works for a white family in a segregated town. The story explores themes of racial consciousness, identity, and shame through Cora's relationship with the Studevants' daughter Jessie.
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.
Oct 25, 2000 · Cora Unashamed: Directed by Deborah Pratt. With Regina Taylor, Cherry Jones, Ellen Muth, Michael Gaston. Set in the 1930's Iowa, where the Cora's family live as the community's only African-Americans. and supported only by Cora's being a housekeeper to the Studevants. When tragedy strikes, will Cora's speak the truth...with consequences?
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- Drama
- Deborah Pratt
- 2000-10-25
Learn about the themes, characters, and literary devices of Cora Unashamed, a short story by Langston Hughes about racism and segregation in rural America. Download a PDF of the full guide or access it online for $0.70/week.
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Cora Jenkins is the protagonist of Hughes' short story, a 40-year-old African American woman who works as a maid for the Studevant family. She is humble, selfless, and kind, but also faces racism and hypocrisy in her rural town.
