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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
Keywords
African Americans--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. (1900). The Strength of Gideon. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company.
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