Collected Short Works (AmazonClassics Edition) - Couverture rigide

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice

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ISBN 10 : 1542030978 ISBN 13 : 9781542030977

Editeur : AmazonClassics, 2021

Synopsis

A civil rights activist and key figure in African American literary history, Alice Dunbar-Nelson made her mark during the emerging Harlem Renaissance. But since her subject matter was as fluid as her own multilayered identity, her prolific and once popular output has since been vastly underrated.

Violets and Other Tales is Dunbar-Nelson’s debut (reprinted here in full, save for three stories that were later updated in The Goodness of St. Rocque). The collection includes poetry, short stories, and essays offering a varied examination of class differences, racial identity, oppression, intolerance, and women’s societal roles. The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories assembles fourteen of Dunbar’s short works of fiction, focusing especially on her own Creole heritage and culture and confronting more directly the questions of race and gender.

Insightful, powerful, and wide-ranging, these collected short works stand as an enduring testament to Dunbar-Nelson’s talent and importance.

Revised edition: Previously published as Violets and Other Tales, The Goodness of St. Roque and Other Tales, this edition of Collected Short Works (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935) was an African American journalist, feminist, lecturer, poet, and writer who gained prominence during the political and artistic flourish of the Harlem Renaissance.

Dunbar-Nelson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, after the Civil War. First working as a public school teacher, she continuously pursued her two passions in life: writing and advocacy for civil rights and women’s suffrage. Although her career was overshadowed by her volatile marriage to poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, she made a lasting contribution to American literature with her sensitive portrayals of African American women and the realities they faced, often touching upon such matters as racism, gender oppression, family, and work. In addition to editing The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer, a literary anthology for African Americans, Dunbar-Nelson published a drama and numerous essays, as well as the two collections of short fiction and poetry for which she is best remembered today: Violets and Other Tales and The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AmazonClassics
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1542030978
• ISBN 13: 9781542030977
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Amazon Publishing, Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.; https://amazonpublishing.amazon.com/work-with-us.html; ; 38, avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg