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In His Own Voice: The Dramatic and Other Uncollected Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar

In His Own Voice: The Dramatic and Other Uncollected Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Martin, Herbert Woodward
Primeau, Ronald
Dunbar, Paul Laurence

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Fiction AnthologiesBlack American StudiesPoetry Criticism

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ISBN10: 0821414224
ISBN13: 9780821414224
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: Apr 2 2002
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.36 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
Paul Laurence Dunbar, introduced to the American public by William Dean Howells, was the first native-born African American poet to achieve national and international fame. While there have been many valuable editions of his works over time, gaps have developed when manuscripts were lost or access to uncollected works became difficult. In His Own Voice brings together previously upublished and uncollected short stories, essays, and poems. This volume also establishes Dunbar's reputation as a dramatist who mastered standard English conventions and used dialect in musical comedy for ironic effects. In His Own Voice collects more than seventy-five works in six genres. Featured are the previously unpublished play Herrick and two one-act plays, largely ignored for a century, that demonstrate Dunbar's subversion of the minstrel tradition. This generous expansion of the canon also includes a short story never before published. Herbert Woodward Martin, renowned for his live portrayal of Dunbar, and Ronald Primeau provide a literary and historical context for this previously untreated material, firmly securing the reputation of an important American voice.

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