Author: Alice Dunbar
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734058724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
Author: Alice Dunbar
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734058724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734058724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar
The Goodness of St. Rocque
Author: Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Southern Workman
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Black American Writing from the Nadir
Author: Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807118061
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In this wide-ranging study, Dickson D. Bruce. Jr., analyzes post-Reconstruction and turn-of-the-century black writing, treating minor as well as major authors and considering a broad range of genres. Bruce shows that black writers confronted the conditions of an increasingly racist society in almost every aspect of their work—from their choice of subject matter to the way they drew their characters to the mood they portrayed. At the same time, these writers, most of whom were members of a small but growing black professional class, displayed a concern for middle-class aspirations and values. Bruce underscores the significance of discerning the tensions between these opposing forces in studying the literature of the time. Bruce’s attention to the body of work produced by minor writers, most of whom have remained obscure to all but a few literary scholars and historians, adds an important dimension to our understanding of African-American history and literature. His discussion of such better-known writers as Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and W. E. B. Du Bois places them in a fuller literary context, defining more clearly their significance as individuals. Black American Writing from the Nadir is an insightful, well-focused work that will benefit social and cultural historians as well as students of literature
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807118061
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In this wide-ranging study, Dickson D. Bruce. Jr., analyzes post-Reconstruction and turn-of-the-century black writing, treating minor as well as major authors and considering a broad range of genres. Bruce shows that black writers confronted the conditions of an increasingly racist society in almost every aspect of their work—from their choice of subject matter to the way they drew their characters to the mood they portrayed. At the same time, these writers, most of whom were members of a small but growing black professional class, displayed a concern for middle-class aspirations and values. Bruce underscores the significance of discerning the tensions between these opposing forces in studying the literature of the time. Bruce’s attention to the body of work produced by minor writers, most of whom have remained obscure to all but a few literary scholars and historians, adds an important dimension to our understanding of African-American history and literature. His discussion of such better-known writers as Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and W. E. B. Du Bois places them in a fuller literary context, defining more clearly their significance as individuals. Black American Writing from the Nadir is an insightful, well-focused work that will benefit social and cultural historians as well as students of literature
M'sieu Fortier's Violin
Author: Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781594567063
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781594567063
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Violets and Other Tales
Author: Alice Dunbar Nelson
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513287915
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Violets and Other Tales (1895) is a collection of stories and poems by Alice Dunbar Nelson. While working as a teacher in New Orleans, Dunbar Nelson published Violets and Other Tales through The Monthly Review, embarking on a career as a leading black writer of the early twentieth century. “If perchance this collection of idle thoughts may serve to while away an hour or two, or lift for a brief space the load of care from someone's mind, their purpose has been served—the author is satisfied.” With this entreaty, Alice Dunbar Nelson introduces her first published work with a humility and caution rather unfitting an author of such immense talent. In this collection of reflections, vignettes, short stories, and poems, Dunbar Nelson proves herself as a writer immersed in the classics, yet capable of illuminating the events and concerns of her own generation. In “A Carnival Jangle,” she provides a vibrant description of New Orleans during its legendary season of celebration. “The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ” presents itself as a newly discovered manuscript revealing Jesus’ travels in India. Dunbar Nelson’s brilliant prose style is nicely juxtaposed with her expertise in poetic form as she moves fluidly from love poems to religious verses, narrative poems to heartbreaking elegies. Only twenty years old when this collection was published, Dunbar Nelson executes a brilliant debut to a long and distinguished career in literature. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Alice Dunbar Nelson’s Violets and Other Tales is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513287915
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Violets and Other Tales (1895) is a collection of stories and poems by Alice Dunbar Nelson. While working as a teacher in New Orleans, Dunbar Nelson published Violets and Other Tales through The Monthly Review, embarking on a career as a leading black writer of the early twentieth century. “If perchance this collection of idle thoughts may serve to while away an hour or two, or lift for a brief space the load of care from someone's mind, their purpose has been served—the author is satisfied.” With this entreaty, Alice Dunbar Nelson introduces her first published work with a humility and caution rather unfitting an author of such immense talent. In this collection of reflections, vignettes, short stories, and poems, Dunbar Nelson proves herself as a writer immersed in the classics, yet capable of illuminating the events and concerns of her own generation. In “A Carnival Jangle,” she provides a vibrant description of New Orleans during its legendary season of celebration. “The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ” presents itself as a newly discovered manuscript revealing Jesus’ travels in India. Dunbar Nelson’s brilliant prose style is nicely juxtaposed with her expertise in poetic form as she moves fluidly from love poems to religious verses, narrative poems to heartbreaking elegies. Only twenty years old when this collection was published, Dunbar Nelson executes a brilliant debut to a long and distinguished career in literature. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Alice Dunbar Nelson’s Violets and Other Tales is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
Author: Alice Dunbar
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734058732
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734058732
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar
Poems of Cabin and Field
Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
There Is Confusion
Author: Jessie Redmon Fauset
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 048684711X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
"An important book" — The New York Times. Set in Philadelphia oa century ago, this novel by a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance explores the struggle for social equality as experienced by members of the black middle class.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 048684711X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
"An important book" — The New York Times. Set in Philadelphia oa century ago, this novel by a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance explores the struggle for social equality as experienced by members of the black middle class.
Miss Muriel and Other Stories
Author: Ann Petry
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810135574
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A young black girl watches as her aunt’s multiple suitors disrupt her family’s privacy. The same girl, now on the cusp of adulthood, shares her family’s growing fears that her father has disappeared. Acclaimed author Ann Petry penned these and the other unforgettable narratives in Miss Muriel and Other Stories more than seventy years ago, yet in them contemporary readers recognize characters who exist today and dilemmas that recur again and again: the reluctance of African Americans to seek help from the police, the rage that erupts in a black man worn down by brutality, the tyranny that the young can visit on their elders regardless of race. Originally published between 1945 and 1971, Petry’s stories capture the essence of African American experience since the 1940s.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810135574
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A young black girl watches as her aunt’s multiple suitors disrupt her family’s privacy. The same girl, now on the cusp of adulthood, shares her family’s growing fears that her father has disappeared. Acclaimed author Ann Petry penned these and the other unforgettable narratives in Miss Muriel and Other Stories more than seventy years ago, yet in them contemporary readers recognize characters who exist today and dilemmas that recur again and again: the reluctance of African Americans to seek help from the police, the rage that erupts in a black man worn down by brutality, the tyranny that the young can visit on their elders regardless of race. Originally published between 1945 and 1971, Petry’s stories capture the essence of African American experience since the 1940s.