Much Ado about Black Naturalism: Don John, Blood, and Caged Birds
William Shakespeare’s comedy, Much Ado About Nothing, and Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem, “Sympathy,” peer through black naturalism’s socially deterministic lens, despite conflicts in time, geopolitics, social norms, and literary imagination. Specifically, Don John’s truculent reference about “sing[ing...
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| Language: | English |
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2019-12-01
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| Series: | American, British and Canadian Studies Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2019-0013 |