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

by Dunbar, Paul Laurence

• ISBN13: 9780821414224
• ISBN10: 0821414224
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xvii
General Introduction	xix
A Brief Dunbar Chronology	xxvii
PART ONE: DRAMATIC PIECES
Introduction to the Dramatic Pieces	3	(14)
Plays
Herrick	17	(67)
The Gambler's Wife	84	(13)
The Island of Tanawana	97	(18)
Musicals
Uncle Eph's Christmas	115	(18)
Jes Lak White Fo'ks	133	(12)
Dream Lovers	145	(10)
Musical Lyrics and Fragments
From In Dahomey
Evah Dahkey Is a King	155	(2)
Good Evenin'	157	(1)
On Emancipation Day	158	(1)
Returned: Empty and So Silent Now the Old Cabin Stands	159	(1)
From Clorindy, or the Origin of the Cakewalk
The Hottest Coon in Dixie	160	(1)
Who Dat Say Chicken in dis Crowd	161	(4)
PART TWO: ESSAYS
Introduction to the Essays	165	(4)
Dickens and Thackeray	169	(2)
December 13, 1890	171	(1)
Of Negro Journals	172	(4)
England as Seen by a Black Man	176	(5)
Our New Madness	181	(2)
Negro Music	183	(3)
The Tuskegee Meeting	186	(2)
Negro Life in Washington	188	(5)
Higher Education	193	(2)
Negro Society in Washington	195	(7)
Dunbar Did Not Plagiarize	202	(1)
The Leader of His Race	203	(2)
Negro in Literature	205	(3)
Booker T. Washington	208	(1)
Sunshine at Jackson Park	209	(6)
PART THREE: SHORT STORIES
Introduction to the Short Stories	215	(4)
Ole Conju'in Joe	219	(5)
His Bride of the Tomb	224	(4)
The Tenderfoot	228	(5)
Little Billy	233	(5)
Jimmy Weedon's Contretempts	238	(5)
The Emancipation of Evalina Jones	243	(7)
A Prophesy of Fate	250	(9)
PART FOUR: POEMS
Introduction to the Poems	259	(6)
Sold-A C. H. S. Episode	265	(1)
Happy! Happy! Happy!	266	(1)
Oh, No	267	(1)
Lullaby (I)	268	(1)
A Rondeau	268	(1)
The Farm House by the River	269	(1)
Rondeau for a Lawyer	270	(1)
To Leila Ruth	271	(1)
We Crown Her Queen	272	(2)
The Song of the Gatherer	274	(1)
To a Golden Girl	275	(1)
The Lonely Hunter	276	(1)
Dreams Only Dreams	277	(1)
The Dreamer	277	(1)
Remembered	277	(1)
Keeping in Touch	278	(2)
Triolets	280	(1)
The Valse	281	(1)
After the Struggle	282	(1)
Noddin' by de Fire	283	(1)
Darkie's Rainy Day	284	(2)
Ode	286	(1)
John Hay	287	(1)
Kindness	288	(1)
A Toast to Dayton	288	(1)
(For The Palladium)	289	(1)
New York	290	(1)
Kitty	291	(1)
A Girl	292	(1)
Rocking in the Old Canoe	293	(1)
Tim	294	(1)
The Making Up	295	(1)
Our Hopes and Home	296	(1)
The Drowsy God	297	(1)
Incantation/Invocation	298	(1)
A Letter	299	(1)
A Lament	300	(1)
To Miss Mamie Emerson	301	(1)
A Brown Hair	302	(1)
Lullaby (II)	303	(1)
I Been Kissin' Yo' Picture	304	(3)
Bibliography	307	(6)
Index of Titles	313	(2)
Index to the First Lines of Poems	315