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Description
With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern plantation during slavery. The stories focus on the stereotypical portrait of slaves as obedient workers happy to spend their lives in service of their benevolent owner. His attempt to find success was only partially realized, as his stories drew not only criticism but, in some cases, anger at their very stereotypical nature. The book itself, however, proved to be more lucrative than previous fiction works had been for the author.
Publication Date
1903
Publisher
Dodd, Mead and Company
City
New York
Keywords
African Americans--Fiction; Plantation life--Fiction; Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906
Disciplines
American Literature | Arts and Humanities | English Language and Literature | Fiction | Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority
Repository Citation
Dunbar , P. L. (1903). In Old Plantation Days. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company.
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