In His Own Voice : The Dramatic and Other Uncollected Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar

by Dunbar, Paul Laurence; Martin, Herbert Woodward; Primeau, Ronald

• ISBN13: 9780821414217
• ISBN10: 0821414216
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr

Summary

Presents a collection of poems, esssays, dramatic pieces, and short stories.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
General Introduction	p. xix
A Brief Dunbar Chronology	p. xxvii
Dramatic Pieces
Introduction to the Dramatic Pieces	p. 3
Plays
Herrick	p. 17
The Gambler's Wife	p. 84
The Island of Tanawana	p. 97
Musicals
Uncle Eph's Christmas	p. 115
Jes Lak White Fo'ks	p. 133
Dream Lovers	p. 145
Musical Lyrics and Fragments
From In Dahomey
Evah Dahkey Is a King	p. 155
Good Evenin'	p. 157
On Emancipation Day	p. 158
Returned: Empty and So Silent Now the Old Cabin Stands	p. 159
From Clorindy, or the Origin of the Cakewalk
The Hottest Coon in Dixie	p. 160
Who Dat Say Chicken in dis Crowd	p. 161
Essays
Introduction to the Essays	p. 165
Dickens and Thackeray	p. 169
December 13, 1890	p. 171
Of Negro Journals	p. 172
England as Seen by a Black Man	p. 176
Our New Madness	p. 181
Negro Music	p. 183
The Tuskegee Meeting	p. 186
Negro Life in Washington	p. 188
Higher Education	p. 193
Negro Society in Washington	p. 195
Dunbar Did Not Plagiarize	p. 202
The Leader of His Race	p. 203
Negro in Literature	p. 205
Booker T. Washington	p. 208
Sunshine at Jackson Park	p. 209
Short Stories
Introduction to the Short Stories	p. 215
Ole Conju'in Joe	p. 219
His Bride of the Tomb	p. 224
The Tenderfoot	p. 228
Little Billy	p. 233
Jimmy Weedon's Contretempts	p. 238
The Emancipation of Evalina Jones	p. 243
A Prophesy of Fate	p. 250
Poems
Introduction to the Poems	p. 259
Sold--A C. H. S. Episode	p. 265
Happy! Happy! Happy!	p. 266
Oh, No	p. 267
Lullaby (I)	p. 268
A Rondeau	p. 268
The Farm House by the River	p. 269
Rondeau for a Lawyer	p. 270
To Leila Ruth	p. 271
We Crown Her Queen	p. 272
The Song of the Gatherer	p. 274
To a Golden Girl	p. 275
The Lonely Hunter	p. 276
Dreams Only Dreams	p. 277
The Dreamer	p. 277
Remembered	p. 277
Keeping in Touch	p. 278
Triolets	p. 280
The Valse	p. 281
After the Struggle	p. 282
Noddin' by de Fire	p. 283
Darkie's Rainy Day	p. 284
Ode	p. 286
John Hay	p. 287
Kindness	p. 288
A Toast to Dayton	p. 288
(For The Palladium)	p. 289
New York	p. 290
Kitty	p. 291
A Girl	p. 292
Rocking in the Old Canoe	p. 293
Tim	p. 294
The Making Up	p. 295
Our Hopes and Home	p. 296
The Drowsy God	p. 297
Incantation/Invocation	p. 298
A Letter	p. 299
A Lament	p. 300
To Miss Manie Emerson	p. 301
A Brown Hair	p. 302
Lullaby (II)	p. 303
I Been Kissin' Yo' Picture	p. 304
Bibliography	p. 307
Index of Titles	p. 313
Index to the First Lines of Poems	p. 315
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