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"We Must Write Like the White Men": Race, Realism, and Dunbar's Anomalous First Novel
Ist Teil von
Novel : a forum on fiction, 2004-07, Vol.37 (3), p.303-325
Ort / Verlag
Providence: Duke University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2004
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Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Paul Laurence Dunbar's rationale for representing the race a certain way in Majors and Minors contrasted the public perception that these representations advanced the plantation tradition to the next, more authentic stage of racial realism. As a result, Dunbar faced a dual battle early in his literary career: a war against the plantation tradition itself, as well as a war against readers who pigeonholed his dialect poetry as an authentic form of this tradition. Here, Jarrett argues that the primary weapon Dunbar employed to challenge these two fractions was the doctrine of racial uplift, which claimed that human races could be elevated in moral, intellectual, and physical terms.