{"id":26522,"date":"2012-11-18T17:36:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T17:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26522"},"modified":"2012-11-18T17:36:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T17:36:48","slug":"carnival-convents-and-the-cult-of-st-rocque-cultural-subterfuge-in-the-work-of-alice-dunbar-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26522","title":{"rendered":"Carnival, Convents, and the Cult of St. Rocque: Cultural Subterfuge in the Work of Alice Dunbar-Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carnival, Convents, and the Cult of St. Rocque: Cultural Subterfuge in the Work of Alice Dunbar-Nelson<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Georgia State University
\n2012-08-09
\n57 pages<\/p>\n

Sibongile B. N. Lynch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the College of Arts and Sciences Georgia State University 2012<\/em><\/p>\n

In the work of Alice Dunbar-Nelson<\/a> the city and culture of 19th century New Orleans<\/a> figures prominently, and is a major character affecting the lives of her protagonists. While race, class, and gender are among the focuses of many scholars the eccentricity and cultural history of the most exotic American city, and its impact on Dunbar-Nelson\u2019s writing is unmistakable. This essay will discuss how the diverse cultural environment of New Orleans in the 19th century allowed Alice Dunbar Nelson to create narratives which allowed her short stories to speak to the shifting identities of women and the social uncertainty of African Americans in the Jim Crow<\/a> south. A consideration of New Orleans\u2019 cultural history is important when reading Dunbar-Nelson\u2019s work, whose significance has often been disregarded because of what some considered its lack of racial markers.<\/p>\n

Read the entire thesis here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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