Author: Paul Laurence DunbarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Life and Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Author: Paul Laurence DunbarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Author: Paul Laurence DunbarPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813914381
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Presents the 1913 edition of African-American writer Paul Dunbar's collected poems and adds sixty poems to it, also providing variants, selected primary and secondary bibliographies, and an index of first lines.
The Heart of Happy Hollow
Author: Paul Laurence DunbarPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486794989
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Sixteen tales offer insights into the lives of African Americans after the Civil War, recounting the promise of northward migration, the horrors of lynching, and the complexity of relationships between former slaves and masters.
The Life and Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Author: Paul Laurence DunbarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Collected Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Author: Paul Laurence DunbarPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Folks from Dixie
Author: Paul Laurence DunbarPublisher: G.N. Morang
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Author: Paul Laurence DunbarPublisher:
ISBN: 9780821420072
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents four Dunbar novels under one cover for the first time, allowing readers to assess why he was such a seminal influence on the twentieth century African American writers who followed him into the American canon.
The Strength of Gideon
Author: Paul Laurence DunbarPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Oak and Ivy
Author: Paul Laurence DunbarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Author: Gene Andrew JarrettPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691235155
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full-scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account of a writer whose Gilded Age celebrity as the “poet laureate of his race” hid the private struggles of a man who, in the words of his famous poem, felt like a “caged bird” that sings. Jarrett tells the fascinating story of how Dunbar, born during Reconstruction to formerly enslaved parents, excelled against all odds to become an accomplished and versatile artist. A prolific and successful poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and Broadway librettist, he was also a friend of such luminaries as Frederick Douglass and Orville and Wilbur Wright. But while audiences across the United States and Europe flocked to enjoy his literary readings, Dunbar privately bemoaned shouldering the burden of race and catering to minstrel stereotypes to earn fame and money. Inspired by his parents’ survival of slavery, but also agitated by a turbulent public marriage, beholden to influential benefactors, and helpless against his widely reported bouts of tuberculosis and alcoholism, he came to regard his racial notoriety as a curse as well as a blessing before dying at the age of only thirty-three. Beautifully written, meticulously researched, and generously illustrated, this biography presents the richest, most detailed, and most nuanced portrait yet of Dunbar and his work, transforming how we understand the astonishing life and times of a central figure in American literary history.