We wear the mask : Paul Laurence Dunbar and the politics of representative reality / edited by Willie J. Harrell Jr.
| Other author | Harrell, Willie J., Jr. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, ©2010. |
| Description | xviii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and the influence of African aesthetics: Dunbar's poems and the tradition of masking / Lena Ampadu -- National memory and the arts in Paul Laurence Dunbar's war poetry / Nassim W. Balestrini -- "Sing a song heroic": Paul Laurence Dunbar's mythic and poetic tribute to black soldiers / Sharon D. Raynor -- Minstrelsy and the dialect poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar / Elston L. Carr Jr. -- Dunbar, dialect, and narrative theory: subverted statements in Lyrics of lowly life / Megan M. Peabody -- Rhetorical accountability: Paul Laurence Dunbar's search for "representative" men / Coretta M. Pittman -- "Jump back, honey, jump back": reading Paul Laurence Dunbar in the context of the Century magazine / Mark Noonan -- The glamour of Paul Laurence Dunbar: racial uplift, masculinity, and Bohemia in the Nadir / Matt Sandler -- Kemble's figures and Dunbar's folks: picturing the work of graphic illustration in Dunbar's short fiction / Adam Sonstegard -- "We know de time is ouahs": the power of Christmas in the literature of Paul Laurence Dunbar / Amy Cummins -- Creating a representative community: identity in Paul Laurence Dunbar's In old plantation days / Willie J. Harrell Jr. -- Memory and repression in Paul Laurence Dunbar's The sport of the gods / Jeannine King -- A little something more than something else: Dunbar's colorist ambivalence in The sport of the gods / Dolores V. Sisco -- Mobile blacks and ubiquitous blues: urbanizing the African American discourses in Paul Laurence Dunbar's The sport of the gods / Michael P. Moreno -- "With myriad subtleties": Paul Laurence Dunbar's constructions of social identity in The sport of the gods / Jayne E. Waterman -- "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2010000360 |
| ISBN | 9781606350461 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1606350463 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS1557 .W4 2010 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |