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1) The collected novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Author

Dunbar, Paul Laurence

Publisher

Ohio University Press

Pub. Date

©2009

Language

English

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Each novel explores the issues of race, class, politics, region, morality and spirituality and challenges the assumption that black novelists should cast only blacks as main characters and as messengers of racial-political unity.

2) The sport of the gods: and other essential writings

Author

Dunbar, Paul Laurence

Publisher

Modern Library

Pub. Date

©2005

Language

English

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"Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) overcame racism and poverty to become one of the best-known authors in America, and the first African American to earn a living from his poetry, fiction, drama, journalism, and lectures. This original collection includes the short novel The Sport of the Gods, Dunbar's essential essays and short stories, and his finest poems, such as "Sympathy," all of which explore crucial social, political, and humanistic issues...