Books : Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow: The Courtship and Marriage of Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore
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by: Eleanor Alexander
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.4
EAN: 9780452285040
ISBN: 0452285046
Label: Plume
Manufacturer: Plume
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: March 30, 2004
Publisher: Plume
Release Date: March 30, 2004
Sales Rank: 732969
Studio: Plume
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A remarkable story of tortured love among the African American elite
When acclaimed African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar saw a photo of Alice Ruth Moore in a literary magazine in 1895, he sparked off one of the most important-and turbulent-romances of turn-of-the-century America.
During the six years of their courtship and marriage, Paul and Alice enjoyed literary acclaim, received recognition as the vanguard of African American accomplishment, and gained access to elite white society. But beneath the idyllic veneer, Alice's life was marred by rape and brutality, Paul's by alcoholism, depression, sickness, and artistic self-doubt. After suffering a near-fatal beating in 1902, Alice left him to become an important suffragist, and when Paul died four years later, she had answered his ardent letters for reconciliation with only a single telegram: 'No.'
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Rating:  - Excellent Analysis
I think that this book was excellent in that it provides a foundation for finding new ways to analyze history, seeing as how the history we are generally taught excludes people who were not members of mainstream society. A history that only focuses on mainstream society does not represent all of society and almost behaves as if other people did not exist or play major roles. Eleanor Alexander acknowledged that while there was not much documentation on the courtship and relations of the African American ... Read More
Rating:  - Better to have love and lost...
How do two African-Americans, who are uncomfortable in the skin they are born in, forge a successful union in the early 1900s if the relationship is doomed from the beginning? Eleanor Alexander depicts the courtship and marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore, African-American pioneers in the literary arena.
Paul Dunbar is born in Dayton, Ohio on June 27, 1872 to a doting mother and an abusive father. A sickly child, Paul has an unusually close relationship with his mother, ... Read More
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