7 best short stories by Alice Dunbar-Nelson:

7 best short stories by Alice Dunbar-Nelson –

Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to Alice Dunbar Nelson Among the first generation born free in the South after the Civil War, Alice Dunbar Nelson was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. As her posthumous editor Alice T. Hull puts it, Dunbar-Nelson and her contemporaries were “always mindful of their need to be living refutations of the sexual slurs to which black women were subjected and, at the same time, as much as white women, were also tyrannized by the still-prevalent Victorian cult of true womanhood”. This books contains: – A Carnival Jangle. – Little Miss Sophie. – La Juanita. – The Praline Woman. – Sister Josepha. – Mr. Baptiste. – M’sieu Fortier’s Violin. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!