In his own voice
Subtitle: the dramatic and other uncollected works of Paul Laurence Dunbar
By: edited by Herbert Woodward Martin & Ronald Primeau ; with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Contributors: Martin, Herbert Woodward.; Primeau, Ronald.; Gates, Henry Louis.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: African Americans -- Literary collections.
Genres: Literary collections.
Description: Synopsis: This collection features Dunbar's (1872-1906) previously unpublished dramatic works, short stories, essays, and poems-approximately 75 works in six genres. The dramatic works include plays, musicals, and musical lyrics and fragments. The essays discuss Dickens and Thackeray, England from the Black perspective, black life and society in Washington, higher education, plagiarism, the literary portrayal of black people, and Booker T. Washington. A chronology is included.-Annotation c. Book News, Inc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-311) and indexes.