... , Benjamin Griffith . Paul Laurence Dunbar, Poet of His People . Port Washington: Kennikat P, 1967 . Braxton , Joanne M. “Introduction.” The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar . Ed. Joanne M. Braxton Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1993 . ix –xxxvi. Bruce , Dickson D. Jr...

... and Truants looks at ­anomalies—that is, texts written by black authors devoted largely to portraits of white characters or to characters whose race is neither marked nor specified. From Paul Laurence Dunbar’s impatience with Negro dialect poems to Frank Yerby’s costume romances about white creole...

..., Representation, and African American Culture (Princeton UP, forthcoming) and The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Ohio UP, forthcoming). SANJAY KRISHNAN is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. JOHN PLOTZ is Associate Professor of English at Brandeis...

... —specifically when the speech is written in all caps. I believe this style of presenting the narration as a conversation relates to Wenzel's use of autofiction as a means of undermining our expectations for authenticity. Heidi James-Dunbar considers autofiction a particularly pertinent genre for our current...