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"I know why the caged bird sings!": Dunbar in China.(Paul Laurence Dunbar's works studied in China)
Paul Laurence Dunbar used his poetry to express frustration and disappointment at the ways that his country treated his fellow African Americans. One hundred years after his death, however, he might be consoled to know that in a different part of the world many people have been reading him with sympathy and empathy, and the Chinese have answered the black poet out loud: we know why the caged bird sings!
This paper presents a brief account of the Chinese response to Paul Laurence Dunbar since the early 1920s. The presence of the African American writer in China reflects a general pattern in the century-long process of the Chinese reception of American literature. ...
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- Magazine article from: Kola Moore, Lenard D. September 22, 1999 700+ words
...describe the best of African-American literature. I wasn't taught African-American literature at my high...Wheatley and Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes and...The Norton Anthology of African -American Literature. "Edited...
