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Introduction 1997 by Texas A & M University Press Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved First Texas A & M University Press edition, 1997
Originally published in 1946 by Random House, New York
The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1984. Binding materials have been chosen for durability.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gibson, Jewel, 1904 Joshua Beene and God / by Jewel Gibson ; with an introduction by Sylvia Ann Grider. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-89096-797-0 I. Title. PS3513.I27534J67 1997 97-33407 813'.54-dc210 CIP
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TO MYRNA, VERNA, & BILLY
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Contents
Introduction, Sylvia Ann Grider
ix
Chapters
1. Joshua Beene Rededicates Himself
3
2. Of Effigies and Robes Unspotted
21
3. The Mob Strikes
37
4. Uncle Josh Rounds up the Holy Rollers
55
5. Of Wine Unsipped and Songs Unsung
69
6. Uncle Josh Admits He and God Are Doing Right Well
82
7. Uncle Josh Lays Down the Law
102
8. The Devil's Riding Horse
122
9. Uncle Josh Splints the Wings of a Fallen Sparrow
135
10. The Prophet Takes a Helpmate
147
11. The Baptist Scheme
161
12. Uncle Josh Proves His Power
174
13. Uncle Josh Exposed
191
14. The Petition
213
15. The Prophecy Is Fulfilled
226
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Introduction
by Sylvia Ann Grider
The original 1946 dust jacket hyped Joshua Beene and God for being "as American as a flapjack," a novel certain to "provoke a geyser of scandalized laughter." Fifty-one years later that assessment still smacks dead-center. The first of only two novels written by East Texas native Jewel Gibson, this unrelenting satire pokes and prods the underbelly of turn-of-the-century Texas social consciousness. Racism, religious intolerance, and ignorance undermine the self-righteousness of the denizens of Spring Creek, a hamlet held in thrall by the bombast and conniving of self-appointed prophet and confidant of God Himself, Joshua Ebenezer Beene.
More an extended character study than a conventional novel, Joshua Beene and God is set during the last year of Uncle Josh's proverbial "six score and ten." After conferring with God on the banks of the San Jacinto River, he spends that year dealing with the unfinished business of a lifetime, all with the avowed intent of cleaning up the community founded by his father where he was born and lived for sixty-nine years. In his multiple roles as justice of the peace, preacher at the Church of Christ, president of the School Board, self-appointed protector of "his and God's pets," and self-proclaimed prophet, he bullies, cajoles, and tricks his
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fellow citizens until the women who know him best expose him as a fake who "might be a fool but... a sincere fool."
The author of this idiosyncratic novel was a product of the very culture she chronicles with such verve and veracity. Born in Bald Prairie, Robertson County, Texas, in 1904, Jewel Gibson grew up helping on her parents' farm and interacting daily with the very people who became the models for the characters in Joshua Beene and God. In 1922 she married an oil driller when she was only seventeen. With her husband's encouragement, she graduated from Calvert High School in 1924, earned an associate degree in 1926 from Westminster College in Tehuacana, began teaching high school English and speech, and raised two sons. She ultimately earned bachelor's and master's degrees in 1932 and 1950 at Sam Houston State Teachers College, where she later taught English after spending a year on the faculty at the University of Houston. Starting in 1930, she worked on Joshua Beene and God off and on for fifteen years while she was teaching, in part to keep from worrying about her sons who were serving in the military during World War II. She was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters soon after the book came out.
After publishing Joshua Beene and God, she turned her creative attention away from rural, turn-of-the-century Texas and focused on the oil boom, a topic she knew intimately because of her husband's involvement with the oil industry. The novel Black Gold (1950) was the result. Less successful and controversial than Joshua, it focused more on the wide range of colorful characters who drifted in and out of the boom town of Watson, a fictional town bearing an unmistakable resemblance to Batson, near Beaumont.
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