""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction: Dunbar and the Ethics of Black Identity""; ""Part I. Poetry""; ""1 The Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Influence of African Aesthetics: Dunbar�s Poems and the Tradition of Masking""; ""2 National Memory and the Arts in Paul Laurence Dunbar�s War Poetry""; ""3 “Sing a Song Heroic�: Paul Laurence Dunbar�s Mythic and Poetic Tribute to Black Soldiers""; ""4 Minstrelsy and the Dialect Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar""; ""5 Dunbar, Dialect, and Narrative Theory: Subverted Statements in Lyrics of Lowly Life""
""Part II. Race, Rhetoric, and Social Structure""""6 Rhetorical Accountability: Paul Laurence Dunbar�s Search for “Representative� Men""; ""7 “Jump Back, Honey, Jump Back�: Reading Paul Laurence Dunbar in the Context of the Century Magazine""; ""8 The Glamour of Paul Laurence Dunbar: Racial Uplift, Masculinity, and Bohemia in the Nadir""; ""9 Kemble�s Figures and Dunbar�s Folks: Picturing the Work of Graphic Illustration in Dunbar�s Short Fiction""; ""10 “We Know de Time Is Ouahs�: The Power of Christmas in the Literature of Paul Laurence Dunbar""
""11 Creating a Representative Community: Identity in Paul Laurence Dunbar�s In Old Plantation Days""""Part III. Novels, Identity, and Representation""; ""12 Memory and Repression in Paul Laurence Dunbar�s The Sport of the Gods""; ""13 A Little Something More Than Something Else: Dunbar�s Colorist Ambivalence in The Sport of the Gods""; ""14 Mobile Blacks and Ubiquitous Blues: Urbanizing the African American Discourses in Paul Laurence Dunbar�s The Sport of the Gods""
""15 “With Myriad Subtleties�: Paul Laurence Dunbar�s Constructions of Social Identity in The Sport of the Gods""""16 “Nemmine. You Got to Git Somebody Else to Ring Yo� Ol� Bell Now�: Nigger Ed and the Rhetoric of Local Color Realism and Racial Protest in Dunbar�s The Fanatics""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
