Tag: Paul Laurence Dunbar

  • Making and Unmaking Whiteness in Early New South Fiction After the Civil War Smashwords 2012-06-06 77 pages (21,670 words) eBook ISBN: 9781476497068 Peter Schmidt, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English Literature Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania This essay—a work of literary criticism and critical race studies written to be accessible to non-specialists—examines how popular fiction…

  • Dividing Lines: Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction University of Michigan Press 2013 232 pages 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-472-11861-8 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-472-02890-0 Andreá N. Williams, Associate Professor of English Ohio State University Photograph of John and Lugenia Burns Hope and family, undated, Atlanta University Photographs—Individuals, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library (Pictured…

  • Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity Duke University Press 2012 400 pages 71 photographs Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5085-9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5067-5 Edited by: Maurice O. Wallace, Associate Professor of English and African & African American Studies Duke University Shawn Michelle Smith, Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies School of…

  • “Entirely Black Verse from Him Would Succeed”: Minstrel Realism and William Dean Howells Nineteenth-Century Literature Volume 59, Number 4 (March 2005) pages 494-525 DOI: 10.1525/ncl.2005.59.4.494 Gene Jarrett, Associate Professor of English Boston University In the early months of 1896, James A. Herne returned to his hotel in Toledo, Ohio, the city where he was directing…