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1	Carnival, Convents, and the Cult of St. Rocque: Cultural Subterfuge in the Work of Alice Dunbar-Nelson Lynch, Sibongile B 09 August 2012 (has links) In the work of Alice Dunbar-Nelson the city and culture of 19th century New Orleans figures prominently, and is a major character affecting the lives of her protagonists. While race, class, and gender are among the focuses of many scholars the eccentricity and cultural history of the most exotic American city, and its impact on Dunbar-Nelson’s writing is unmistakable. This essay will discuss how the diverse cultural environment of New Orleans in the 19th century allowed Alice Dunbar Nelson to create narratives which allowed her short stories to speak to the shifting identities of women and the social uncertainty of African Americans in the Jim Crow south. A consideration of New Orleans’ cultural history is important when reading Dunbar-Nelson’s work, whose significance has often been disregarded because of what some considered its lack of racial markers. Alice Dunbar-Nelson African American literature 19th century African American women New Orleans fiction Carnivalesque
2	Reading Alice Dunbar-Nelson Through the Eyes of a Creole Jones, Patrice E. 06 August 2018 (has links) Abstract Over the last fifty years scholars have worked to recover the work of late nineteenth, early twentieth-century writer Alice Dunbar-Nelson. Many scholars have acknowledged the impact of New Orleans culture and history in her writing as well as attempted peel back the layers of her stories in order to understand her commentary on structures of race, class, and gender in nineteenth-century New Orleans. This hybrid paper, both creative and academic, subjective and objective, is a reading of her work through the Creole lens. Reading Alice Dunbar-Nelson through a Creole lens illuminates the radical nature of her work which has not always been seen through alternative lenses. This paper is a viewing of the work of Dunbar-Nelson from the marginal space which it illustrates and from which it comes. Through personal narrative and analytical thought this paper explores a different approach to literary criticism. Alice Dunbar-Nelson Arts and Humanities Literature in English, North America
3	Public Negotiation: Magazine Culture and Female Authorship, 1900-1930 Weaver, Angela L. 07 December 2009 (has links) No description available. American Literature American Studies authorship feminism print culture consumerism magazine magazine culture Crisis Little Review Ladies' Home Journal Vogue Emma McChesney work Alice Dunbar Nelson Gertrude Stein Dorothy Parker Gertrude Stein Edna Ferber

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