Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson’s Activist Literature
This article illuminates how the meshing of key aspects of Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson’s life and work—writing political activism, teaching—has been obscured by American literary studies’ traditional overreliance on three related assumptions: that diachronicity suffices in accounts of an author’s...
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| Vydáno v: | Research in African literatures Ročník 55; číslo 3; s. 93 - 103 |
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| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Bloomington
Indiana University Press
22.09.2025
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| ISSN: | 0034-5210, 1527-2044, 1527-2044 |
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| Shrnutí: | This article illuminates how the meshing of key aspects of Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson’s life and work—writing political activism, teaching—has been obscured by American literary studies’ traditional overreliance on three related assumptions: that diachronicity suffices in accounts of an author’s life, that periodization suffices in accounts of literary history, and that authors are coherent beings. Discussing a range of Dunbar-Nelson’s work—an early sketch, an essay, and published and unpublished fiction— this essay combines synchronicity and diachronicity to engage with the multi-facetedness of her writing about such issues as racial identity and Black involvement in U.S. political parties. |
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| Bibliografie: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 |
| ISSN: | 0034-5210 1527-2044 1527-2044 |
| DOI: | 10.2979/ral.00074 |