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Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
Gene Andrew Jarrett
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Description for Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
Hardback. BIC Classification: WZ. Dimension: 250 x 150. Weight in Grams: 666.
The definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history
A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full-scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account of a writer whose Gilded Age celebrity as the “poet laureate of his race” hid the private struggles of a man who, in the words of his famous poem, felt like a “caged bird” that sings.
Jarrett tells the fascinating story of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2022
Language
English
Condition
New
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691150529
SKU
V9780691150529
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Ref
99-1
About Gene Andrew Jarrett
Gene Andrew Jarrett is Dean of the Faculty and William S. Tod Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature and Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature. He is also the coeditor of The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar and The ... Read more
Reviews for Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
"One of ESSENCE'S 55 New Books We Can't Wait to Read" "A New Yorker Best Book of the Year" "A Book Riot Best Biography of the Year" "Winner of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism" "A book that pulls you along like an open bag of potato chips; for the first 100 or so pages, I could barely put ... Read more