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Selected Secondary Bibliography on Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)

Bauer, Margaret D. "When a Convent Seems the Only Viable Choice: Questionable Callings in Stories by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Walker, and Louise Erdrich." Critical Essays on Alice Walker. Ed. Ikenna Dieke. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. 45-54.

Brooks, Kristina Margaret. "Transgressing the Boundaries of Identity: Racial Pornography, Fallen Women, and Ethnic Others in the Works of Pauline Hopkins, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Edith Wharton." U of California Berkeley, 1996.

Brown, Nikki L. "War Work, Social Work, Community Work: Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Federal War Work Agencies, and Southern African American Women." Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and Culture. Eds. Barbara McCaskill and Caroline Gebhard: New York UP, New York, NY Pagination: 197-209, 2006. xiv, 298.

Bryan, Violet Harrington. "Creating and Re-Creating the Myth of New Orleans: Grace King and Alice Dunbar-Nelson." Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association (1987): 185-96.

---. "Race and Gender in the Early Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson." Louisiana Women Writers: New Essays and a Comprehensive Bibliography. Ed. Dorothy H. Ewell and Barbara C. Brown(ed. & introd.). Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1992. 122-38.

Davidson, Adenike Marie. "Marginal Spaces, Marginal Texts: Alice Dunbar-Nelson and the African American Prose Poem." Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South 44.1 (2006): 51-64.

Diggs, Marylynne. "Surveying the Intersection: Pathology, Secrecy, and the Discourses of Racial and Sexual Identity." Critical Essays: Gay and Lesbian Writers of Color. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. New York: Haworth, 1993. 1-19.

Gebhard, Caroline. "Inventing a 'Negro Literature': Race, Dialect, and Gender in the Early Work of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson." Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and Culture. Eds. Barbara McCaskill and Caroline Gebhard: New York UP, New York, NY Pagination: 162-78, 2006. xiv, 298.

Gowdy, Anne Razey. "Alice Dunbar-Nelson." The History of Southern Women's Literature. Ed. Carolyn Perry-, Mary Louise Weaks, and Doris Betts(introd.). Southern Literary Studies. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State UP, 2002. 225-30.

Hull, Gloria T. "Researching Alice Dunbar-Nelson: A Personal and Literary Perspective." Feminist Studies 6 (1980): 314-20.

---. "Alice Dunbar-Nelson: A Regional Approach." Teaching Women's Literature from a Regional Perspective. Ed. Leonore --Rosenfelt Hoffmann, Deborah. New York: Mod. Lang. Assn. of Amer., 1982. 64-68.

---. "Researching Alice Dunbar-Nelson: A Personal and Literary Perspective." All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies. Ed. Gloria T. (ed. & introd.)--Scott Hull, Patricia Bell --Smith, Barbara (ed. & introd.)--Berry, Mary (foreword). Old Westbury, NY: Feminist P, 1982. 189-95.

---. "Alice Dunbar-Nelson: A Personal and Literary Perspective." Between Women: Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers, and Artists Write About Their Work on Women. Ed. Carol --DeSalvo Ascher, Louise --Ruddick, Sara. Boston: Beacon, 1984. 105-11.

Hull, Gloria T. Color, Sex, & Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Everywoman: Studies in Hist., Lit. & Culture. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1987.

---. "Shaping Contradictions: Alice Dunbar-Nelson and the Black Creole Experience." New Orleans Review 15.1 (1988): 34-37.

---. "'Two-Facing Life': The Duality of Alice Dunbar-Nelson." Collections 4 (1989): 19-35.
Ijeoma, Charmaine N. "Alice Dunbar-Nelson's Short Stories: An Afrocentric Analysis." Temple U, 1999.

---. "Alice Dunbar-Nelson: A Biography." Collections 10 (2000): 25-54.

Johnson, Alisa. "Writing within the Script: Alice Dunbar-Nelson's 'Ellen Fenton'." Studies in American Fiction 19.2 (1991): 165-74.

Jones, Gwendolyn S. "Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)." African American Autobiographers: A Sourcebook. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. 119-22.

Lutes, Jean Marie. "Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)." Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Denise D. Knight(ed. and preface) and Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. 111-17.

Menke, Pamela Glenn. "Behind the 'White Veil': Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Creole Color, and the Goodness of St. Rocque." Songs of Reconstructing South: Building Literary Louisiana, 1865-1945. Ed. Suzanne Disheroon-Green, Lisa Abney and Robin Miller (foreword). Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. 77-88.

Metcalf, Eugene W., Jr. "The Letters to Paul and Alice Dunbar: A Private History." 1974.

Mitchell, Koritha A. "Antilynching Plays: Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar- Nelson, and the Evolution of African American Drama." Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and Culture. Eds. Barbara McCaskill and Caroline Gebhard: New York UP, New York, NY Pagination: 210-30, 2006. xiv, 298.

O'Neal, Mary Anne. "New Orleans Realists: Grace King, Kate Chopin, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson." U of Georgia, 1999.

Sempreora, Margot Sahrbeck. "Translating Women: The Short Fiction of Kate Chopin and Alice Dunbar-Nelson and the Films of Julie Dash." Tufts U, 1997.

Single, Lori Leathers. "Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)." African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Emmanuel S. (ed. and preface) Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. 139-46.

Stouck, Jordan W. "The Feminine Creole: Identity in the Works of Jean Rhys, Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Pauline Melville." Queen's U, 2002.

Whitlow, Roger. "Alice Dunbar-Nelson: New Orleans Writer." Regionalism and the Female Imagination 4.1 (1978): 51-61.

---. "Alice Dunbar-Nelson: New Orleans Writer." Regionalism and the Female Imagination: A Collection of Essays. Ed. Emily Toth. New York: Human Sciences, 1985. 109-25.

Williams, Ora. "Works by and About Alice Ruth (Moore) Dunbar-Nelson: A Bibliography." College Language Association Journal 19 (1976): 322-26.

Williams, Ruby Ora. "An in-Depth Portrait of Alice Dunbar-Nelson." 1975.

Young, Patricia Alzatia. "Female Pioneers in Afro-American Drama: Angelina Weld Grimke, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Mary Powell Burrill." 1987.

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