The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 1

by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Gloria Hull (Editor)

Overview

Spanning the gamut of literary genres, from autobiographical short stories to poetry, journalism, and novelettes, this is a comprehensive collection of one of America's most seminal women writers. A testament to the nineteenth century as birthplace for black woman writers, The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson offers insight into the themes of oppression and intolarance, often considered dangerous or ignored in the nineteenth century, but now pervade much writing today. Themes such as crossing racial boundaries, infused with Dunbar-Nelson's autobiographical fervor

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195052503
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/14/1988
Series:	The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers , #1
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	7.28(w) x 6.64(h) x 1.34(d)

About the Author

University of California, Santa Cruz

Editorial Reviews

"Alice Dunbar-Nelson's journalism—especially her column for The Pittsburgh Courier, 'Une Femme Dit'—is without peer."—Eric J. Sundquist in The New York Times Book Review

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