We wear the mask
Subtitle: Paul Laurence Dunbar and the politics of representative reality
By: edited by Willie J. Harrell Jr.
Contributors: Harrell, Willie J., Jr.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Kent Ohio
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781606350461
Subjects: Dunbar, Paul Laurence, -- 1872-1906 -- Criticism and interpretation; Dunbar, Paul Laurence, -- 1872-1906 -- Language; African Americans in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and the influence of African aesthetics: Dunbar's poems and the tradition of masking / Lena Ampadu; title: National memory and the arts in Paul Laurence Dunbar's war poetry / Nassim W. Balestrini; title: "Sing a song heroic": Paul Laurence Dunbar's mythic and poetic tribute to black soldiers / Sharon D. Raynor; title: Minstrelsy and the dialect poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar / Elston L. Carr Jr; title: Dunbar, dialect, and narrative theory: subverted statements in lyrics of lowly life / Megan M. Peabody; title: Rhetorical accountability: Paul Laurence Dunbar's search for "representative" men / Coretta M. Pittman; title: "Jump back, honey, jump back": reading Paul Laurence Dunbar in the context of the century magazine / Mark Noonan; title: The glamour of Paul Laurence Dunbar: racial uplift, masculinity, and Bohemia in the Nadir / Matt Sandler; title: Kemble's figures and Dunbar's folks: picturing the work of graphic illustration in Dunbar's short fiction / Adam Sonstegard; title: "We know de time is ouahs": the power of Christmas in the literature of Paul Laurence Dunbar / Amy Cummins; title: Creating a representative community: identity in Paul Laurence Dunbar's in Old plantation days / Willie J. Harrell Jr; title: Memory and repression in Paul Laurence Dunbar's the Sport of the gods / Jeannine King; title: A little something more than something else: Dunbar's colorist ambivalence in Sport of the gods / Dolores V. Sisco; title: Mobile blacks and ubiquitous blues: urbanizing the African American discourses in Paul Laurence Dunbar's the Sport of the gods / Michael P. Moreno; title: "With myriad subtleties": Paul Laurence Dunbar's constructions of social identity in the Sport of the gods / Jayne E. Waterman; title: "Nemmine. you got to git somebody else to ring yo' ol' bell now": nigger Ed and the rhetoric of local color realism and racial protest in Dunbar's the Fanatics / Willie J. Harrell Jr.