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- Title
Dunbar's Children.
- Authors
Elam, Michele
- Abstract
This article describes African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry for and about children. This poetry is found to be a reminiscence about children or about the speaker's childhood. Despite the poetry's direct address to children, it is clearly intended to be overheard by both black and white adults. Dunbar's portrayal of children opposes late 19th-century representations of black boys and girls as part of the so-called Negro Problem in the U.S. Children are depicted as signs of progress and the nation's heirs apparent.
- Subjects
DUNBAR, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906; AFRICAN Americans; BLACK children in literature; CHILD rearing; ARTS &; children; LECTURERS; GIRLS
- Publication
African American Review, 2007, Vol 41, Issue 2, p259
- ISSN
1062-4783
- Publication type
Literary Criticism