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Lyrics Of Sunshine And Shadow: The Tragic Courtship And Marriage Of Paul Laurence Dunbar And Alice Ruth Moore,Used
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2002!Traces the tempestuous romance of Lice Ruth Moore and Paul Laurence Dunbar, early 20th century's most noted AfricanAmerican literary coupleOn February 10, 1906, Alice Ruth Moore, estranged wife of renowned early twentiethcentury poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, boarded a streetcar, settled comfortably into her seat, and opened her newspaper to learn of her husband's death the day before. Paul Laurence Dunbar, son of former slaves, whom Frederick Douglass had dubbed 'the most promising young colored man in America,' was dead from tuberculosis at the age of 33. Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow traces the tempestuous romance of America's most noted AfricanAmerican literary couple. Drawing on a variety of love letters, diaries, journals, and autobiographies, Eleanor Alexander vividly recounts Dunbar's and Moore's tumultuous affair, from a courtship conducted almost entirely through letters and an elopement brought on by Dunbar's brutal, drunken rape of Moore, through their passionate marriage and its eventual violent dissolution in 1902. Moore, once having left Dunbar, rejected his every entreaty to return to him, responding to his many letters only once, with a blunt, oneword telegram ('No').This is a remarkable story of tragic romance among AfricanAmerican elites struggling to define themselves and their relationships within the context of postslavery America. As such, it provides a timely examination of the ways in which cultural ideology and politics shape and complicate conceptions of romantic love.
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