Author : Willie J. Harrell (Jr.)
Release : 2010
Genre : African Americans in literature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 461/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis We Wear the Mask by : Willie J. Harrell (Jr.)
Download or read book We Wear the Mask written by Willie J. Harrell (Jr.). This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of the scholarship on the African American writer. A prolific nineteenth-century author, Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African American poet to gain national recognition. It examines the self-motivated and dynamic effect of his use of dialect, language, rhetorical strategies, and narrative theory to promote racial uplift.