The Strength of Gideon

Authors

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Files

Document Type

Book

Description

Dunbar's second collection of short stories echoed his works of poetry in that it was a combination of works full of sentimental humor and works that told of the harsher sides of the African-American experience, both before and after emancipation. Critics tended to promote the sentimental stories at the expense of his harsher accounts of that experience. Later critics, however, suggest these stories demonstrate Dunbar's criticism of racial inequality in American society.

Publication Date

1900

Publisher

Dodd, Mead and Company

City

New York

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | English Language and Literature

Repository Citation

Dunbar , P. L. (1900). The Strength of Gideon. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company.