TY - ABST T1 - "Hush My Mouth" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) ED - Charles G. Waugh ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Alternate history in which during the U.S. Civil War both North and South refuse to allow Blacks to serve and the war ends in a stalemate with neither side winning. The depleted southern forces return home riddled with disease and all whites die or, in a few cases, are killed. New Africa, the old South, was populated by people divided by their place of origin, without a common language, and unwilling to work together. A sect of Silents, who vow never to speak, arise to remind people of the sin of Pride.

JF - Alternate Histories: Eleven Stories Stories of the World As it Might Have Been PB - Garland CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Fiction and Feminism. Ed. Helen Merrick and Tess Williams (Perth, WA, Australia: University of Western Australia Press, 1999), 311-18.

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