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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22.09.2025
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| Abstract | 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 Discussing a range of Dunbar-Nelson’s work—an early sketch, an essay, and published and unpublished fiction— this essay combines synchronicity and diachronicity to engage with the multi-facetedness of her writing about such issues as racial identity and Black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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| AbstractList | 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 Discussing a range of Dunbar-Nelson's work--an early sketch, an essay, and published and unpublished fiction-this essay combines synchronicity and diachronicity to engage with the multi-facetedness of her writing about such issues as racial identity and Black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. 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 authors 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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