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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

The Strength of Gideon


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