by Paul Laurence Dunbar edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett, Thomas Lewis Morgan, Thomas Lewis Morgan and Gene Andrew Jarrett foreword by Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Ohio University Press, 2005 Cloth: 978-0-8214-1644-0 | eISBN: 978-0-8214-4198-5 | Paper: 978-0-8214-1883-3 Library of Congress Classification PS1556.A4 2005 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.4
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
An ALA “Best of the Best” Book
The son of former slaves, Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the most prominent figures in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Thirty-three years old at the time of his death in 1906, he had published four novels, four collections of short stories, and fourteen books of poetry, as well as numerous songs, plays, and essays in newspapers and magazines around the world.
In the century following his death, Dunbar slipped into relative obscurity, remembered mainly for his dialect poetry or as a footnote to other more canonical figures of the period. The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar showcases his gifts as a writer of short fiction and provides key insights into the tensions and themes of Dunbar's literary achievement. The 104 stories written by Dunbar between 1890 and 1905 reveal Dunbar's attempts to maintain his artistic integrity while struggling with America's racist stereotypes. Making them available for the first time in one convenient, comprehensive, and definitive volume, The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar illustrates the complexity of his literary life and legacy.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Thomas Lewis Morgan is an assistant professor of English at the University of Dayton. His research and teaching interests focus on critical race theory in late-nineteenth-century American and African American literature, specifically as it applies to the politics of narrative form.
Gene Andrew Jarrett is an associate professor of English and African American Studies at Boston University. He is the author of Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature and editor or coeditor of The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892–1938; African American Literature beyond Race: An Alternative Reader, and The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
REVIEWS
“Dunbar’s short stories offered keen insight into American race relations as well as the problems African Americans faced in the nineteeth and early twentieth centuries.... He was more proactive and subtle about inserting his own political views than many critics, then and since, have given him credit for.”—The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar
“One hundred years after the death of Dunbar, he is most remembered for his poem ‘We Wear the Mask,’ evoking the balance required of blacks to survive and prosper in nineteenth-century America. This collection of 103 of Dunbar’s short stories written between 1890 and 1905, including well known pieces and many that have gone out of print, allows readers to see how the first African American writer to enjoy huge success evolved as a writer. This is a valuable collection for readers interested in Dunbar and his place in African American and American literature.“—Booklist, starred review
“Dunbar’s nuanced strategies are on ample display in this first comprehensive collection of his fiction...The stories in the volume are complicated, entertaining, offensive, and moving.”—Rain Taxi
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Foreword by Shelley Fisher Fishkin 000
Acknowledgments 000
Introduction 000
Editors' Note 000
I: Collected Stories
Folks from Dixie (1898)
Anner 'Lizer's Stumblin' Block 1
The Ordeal at Mt. Hope 000
The Colonel's Awakening 000
The Trial Sermons on Bull-Skin 000
Jimsella 000
Mt. Pisgah's Christmas 'Possum 000
A Family Feud 000
Aunt Mandy's Investment 000
The Intervention of Peter 000
Nelse Hatton's Vengeance 000
At Shaft 11 000
The Deliberation of Mr. Dunkin 000
The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories (1900)
The Strength of Gideon 000
Mammy Peggy's Pride 000
Viney's Free Papers 000
The Fruitful Sleeping of the Rev. Elisha Edwards 000
The Ingrate 000
The Case of "Ca'line" 000
The Finish of Patsy Barnes 000
One Man's Fortunes 000
Jim's Probation 000
Uncle Simon's Sundays Out 000
Mr. Cornelius Johnson, Office-Seeker 000
An Old-Time Christmas 000
A Mess of Pottage 000
The Trustfulness of Polly 000
The Tragedy at Three Forks 000
The Finding of Zach 000
Johnsonham, Junior 000
The Faith Cure Man 000
A Council of State 000
Silas Jackson 000
In Old Plantation Days (1903)
Aunt Tempe's Triumph 000
Aunt Tempe's Revenge 000
The Walls of Jericho 000
How Brother Parker Fell from Grace 000
The Trousers 000
The Last Fiddling of Mordaunt's Jim 000
A Supper by Proxy 000
The Trouble About Sophiny 000
Mr. Groby's Slippery Gift 000
Ash-Cake Hannah and Her Ben 000
Dizzy-Headed Dick 000
The Conjuring Contest 000
Dandy Jim's Conjure Scare 000
The Memory of Martha 000
Who Stand for the Gods 000
A Lady Slipper 000
A Blessed Deceit 000
The Brief Cure of Aunt Fanny 000
The Stanton Coachman 000
The Easter Wedding 000
The Finding of Martha 000
The Defection of Maria Ann Gibbs 000
A Judgment of Paris 000
Silent Sam'el 000
The Way of a Woman 000
The Heart of Happy Hollow (1904)
Foreword 000
The Scapegoat 000
One Christmas at Shiloh 000
The Mission of Mr. Scatters 000
A Matter of Doctrine 000
Old Abe's Conversion 000
The Race Question 000
A Defender of the Faith 000
Cahoots 000
The Promoter 000
The Wisdom of Silence 000
The Triumph of Ol' Mis' Pease 000
The Lynching of Jube Benson 000
Schwalliger's Philanthropy 000
The Interference of Patsy Ann 000
The Home-coming of 'Rastus Smith 000
The Boy and the Bayonet 000
II: Uncollected Stories
Dialect Stories (New York Journal and Advertiser, 1897)
Buss Jinkins Up Nawth: A Human Nature Sketch of Real Darkey Life in New York 000
Yellowjack's Game of Craps: A Character Sketch of Real Darky Life in New York 000
How George Johnson "Won Out": A Character Sketch of Real Darky Life in New York 000
The Hoodooing of Mr. Bill Simms: A Darky Dialect Story 000
"Ohio Pastorals" (Lippincott's, 1901)
The Mortification of the Flesh 000
The Independence of Silas Bollender 000
The White Counterpane 000
The Minority Committee 000
The Visiting of Mother Danbury 000
Individual Stories (1890/1905)
His Bride of the Tomb 000
His Failure in Arithmetic 000
His Little Lark 000
From Impulse 000
The Tenderfoot 000
Little Billy 000
The End of the Chapter 000
Lafe Halloway's Two Fights 000
The Emancipation of Evalina Jones 000
The Lion Tamer 000
Nathan Makes His Proposal 000
In a Circle 000
Jethro's Garden 000
The Vindication of Jared Hargot 000
The Way of Love 000
The Churching of Grandma Pleasant 000
The Case of Cadwallader 000
Jimmy Weedon's Contretempts 000
Ole Conju'in Joe 000
A Prophesy of Fate 000
Sister Jackson's Superstitions 000
Sources
Alphabetical List of Stories 000
Chronological List of Stories 000
Works Cited 000
Index of Titles 000
by Paul Laurence Dunbar edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett, Thomas Lewis Morgan, Thomas Lewis Morgan and Gene Andrew Jarrett foreword by Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Ohio University Press, 2005 Cloth: 978-0-8214-1644-0 eISBN: 978-0-8214-4198-5 Paper: 978-0-8214-1883-3
An ALA “Best of the Best” Book
The son of former slaves, Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the most prominent figures in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Thirty-three years old at the time of his death in 1906, he had published four novels, four collections of short stories, and fourteen books of poetry, as well as numerous songs, plays, and essays in newspapers and magazines around the world.
In the century following his death, Dunbar slipped into relative obscurity, remembered mainly for his dialect poetry or as a footnote to other more canonical figures of the period. The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar showcases his gifts as a writer of short fiction and provides key insights into the tensions and themes of Dunbar's literary achievement. The 104 stories written by Dunbar between 1890 and 1905 reveal Dunbar's attempts to maintain his artistic integrity while struggling with America's racist stereotypes. Making them available for the first time in one convenient, comprehensive, and definitive volume, The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar illustrates the complexity of his literary life and legacy.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Thomas Lewis Morgan is an assistant professor of English at the University of Dayton. His research and teaching interests focus on critical race theory in late-nineteenth-century American and African American literature, specifically as it applies to the politics of narrative form.
Gene Andrew Jarrett is an associate professor of English and African American Studies at Boston University. He is the author of Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature and editor or coeditor of The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892–1938; African American Literature beyond Race: An Alternative Reader, and The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
REVIEWS
“Dunbar’s short stories offered keen insight into American race relations as well as the problems African Americans faced in the nineteeth and early twentieth centuries.... He was more proactive and subtle about inserting his own political views than many critics, then and since, have given him credit for.”—The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar
“One hundred years after the death of Dunbar, he is most remembered for his poem ‘We Wear the Mask,’ evoking the balance required of blacks to survive and prosper in nineteenth-century America. This collection of 103 of Dunbar’s short stories written between 1890 and 1905, including well known pieces and many that have gone out of print, allows readers to see how the first African American writer to enjoy huge success evolved as a writer. This is a valuable collection for readers interested in Dunbar and his place in African American and American literature.“—Booklist, starred review
“Dunbar’s nuanced strategies are on ample display in this first comprehensive collection of his fiction...The stories in the volume are complicated, entertaining, offensive, and moving.”—Rain Taxi
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Foreword by Shelley Fisher Fishkin 000
Acknowledgments 000
Introduction 000
Editors' Note 000
I: Collected Stories
Folks from Dixie (1898)
Anner 'Lizer's Stumblin' Block 1
The Ordeal at Mt. Hope 000
The Colonel's Awakening 000
The Trial Sermons on Bull-Skin 000
Jimsella 000
Mt. Pisgah's Christmas 'Possum 000
A Family Feud 000
Aunt Mandy's Investment 000
The Intervention of Peter 000
Nelse Hatton's Vengeance 000
At Shaft 11 000
The Deliberation of Mr. Dunkin 000
The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories (1900)
The Strength of Gideon 000
Mammy Peggy's Pride 000
Viney's Free Papers 000
The Fruitful Sleeping of the Rev. Elisha Edwards 000
The Ingrate 000
The Case of "Ca'line" 000
The Finish of Patsy Barnes 000
One Man's Fortunes 000
Jim's Probation 000
Uncle Simon's Sundays Out 000
Mr. Cornelius Johnson, Office-Seeker 000
An Old-Time Christmas 000
A Mess of Pottage 000
The Trustfulness of Polly 000
The Tragedy at Three Forks 000
The Finding of Zach 000
Johnsonham, Junior 000
The Faith Cure Man 000
A Council of State 000
Silas Jackson 000
In Old Plantation Days (1903)
Aunt Tempe's Triumph 000
Aunt Tempe's Revenge 000
The Walls of Jericho 000
How Brother Parker Fell from Grace 000
The Trousers 000
The Last Fiddling of Mordaunt's Jim 000
A Supper by Proxy 000
The Trouble About Sophiny 000
Mr. Groby's Slippery Gift 000
Ash-Cake Hannah and Her Ben 000
Dizzy-Headed Dick 000
The Conjuring Contest 000
Dandy Jim's Conjure Scare 000
The Memory of Martha 000
Who Stand for the Gods 000
A Lady Slipper 000
A Blessed Deceit 000
The Brief Cure of Aunt Fanny 000
The Stanton Coachman 000
The Easter Wedding 000
The Finding of Martha 000
The Defection of Maria Ann Gibbs 000
A Judgment of Paris 000
Silent Sam'el 000
The Way of a Woman 000
The Heart of Happy Hollow (1904)
Foreword 000
The Scapegoat 000
One Christmas at Shiloh 000
The Mission of Mr. Scatters 000
A Matter of Doctrine 000
Old Abe's Conversion 000
The Race Question 000
A Defender of the Faith 000
Cahoots 000
The Promoter 000
The Wisdom of Silence 000
The Triumph of Ol' Mis' Pease 000
The Lynching of Jube Benson 000
Schwalliger's Philanthropy 000
The Interference of Patsy Ann 000
The Home-coming of 'Rastus Smith 000
The Boy and the Bayonet 000
II: Uncollected Stories
Dialect Stories (New York Journal and Advertiser, 1897)
Buss Jinkins Up Nawth: A Human Nature Sketch of Real Darkey Life in New York 000
Yellowjack's Game of Craps: A Character Sketch of Real Darky Life in New York 000
How George Johnson "Won Out": A Character Sketch of Real Darky Life in New York 000
The Hoodooing of Mr. Bill Simms: A Darky Dialect Story 000
"Ohio Pastorals" (Lippincott's, 1901)
The Mortification of the Flesh 000
The Independence of Silas Bollender 000
The White Counterpane 000
The Minority Committee 000
The Visiting of Mother Danbury 000
Individual Stories (1890/1905)
His Bride of the Tomb 000
His Failure in Arithmetic 000
His Little Lark 000
From Impulse 000
The Tenderfoot 000
Little Billy 000
The End of the Chapter 000
Lafe Halloway's Two Fights 000
The Emancipation of Evalina Jones 000
The Lion Tamer 000
Nathan Makes His Proposal 000
In a Circle 000
Jethro's Garden 000
The Vindication of Jared Hargot 000
The Way of Love 000
The Churching of Grandma Pleasant 000
The Case of Cadwallader 000
Jimmy Weedon's Contretempts 000
Ole Conju'in Joe 000
A Prophesy of Fate 000
Sister Jackson's Superstitions 000
Sources
Alphabetical List of Stories 000
Chronological List of Stories 000
Works Cited 000
Index of Titles 000
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