In his own voice : the dramatic and other uncollected works of Paul Laurence Dunbar /
Synopsis: This collection features Dunbar's (1872-1906) previously unpublished dramatic works, short stories, essays, and poems-approximately 75 works in six genres. The dramatic works include plays, musicals, and musical lyrics and fragments. The essays discuss Dickens and Thackeray, England f...
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- General introduction
- Brief Dunbar chronology
- Part 1. Dramatic Pieces
- Introduction to the dramatic pieces
- Plays: Herrick
- Gambler's wife
- Island of Tanawana
- Musicals: Uncle Eph's Christmas
- Jes Lak white fo'ks
- Dream lovers
- Musical lyrics and fragments: from Evah Dahkey is a king
- Good evenin'
- On Emancipation day
- Returned: empty and so silent now the old cabin stands
- from Clorindy, or the origin of the cakewalk
- Hottest coon in Dixie
- Who dat say chicken in dis crowd
- Part 2. Essays
- Introduction to the essays
- Dickens and Thackeray
- December 13, 1890
- Of negro journals
- England as seen by a black man
- Our new madness
- Negro music
- Tuskegee meeting
- Negro life in Washington
- Higher education
- Negro society in Washington
- Dunbar did not plagiarize
- Leader of his race
- Negro in literature
- Booker T Washington
- Sunshine at Jackson Park
- Part 3. Short Stories
- Introduction to the short stories
- Ole Conju'in Joe
- His bride of the tomb
- Tenderfoot
- Little Billy
- Jimmy Weedon's contretempts
- Emancipation of Evalina Jones
- Prophesy of fate
- Part 4. Poems
- Introduction to the poems
- Sold-A C H S episode
- Happy! happy! happy!
- Oh, no
- Lullaby (I)
- Rondeau
- Farm house by the river
- Rondeau for a lawyer
- To Leila Ruth
- We crown her queen
- Song of the gatherer
- To a golden girl
- Lonely hunter
- Dreams only dreams
- Dreamer
- Remembered
- Keeping in touch
- Triolets
- Valse
- After the struggle
- Noddin' by de fire
- Darkie's rainy day
- Ode
- John Hay
- Kindness
- Toast to Dayton
- For the palladium
- New York
- Kitty
- Girl
- Rocking in the old canoe
- Tim
- Making up
- Our hopes and home
- Drowsy God
- Incantation/invocation
- Letter
- Lament
- To Miss Mamie Emerson
- Brown hair
- Lullaby (II)
- I been kissin' yo' picture
- Bibliography
- Index of titles
- Index to the first lines of poems.