Sister Josepha is a popular tale by Alice Dunbar Nelson which tells the story of a woman caught between her will to live freely but as a Nun or, to live grudgingly as somebody’s wife. e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited and formatted collection of Alice Dunbar Nelson’s famous short stories that made her an important African-American writer of her day.
Content:
Sister Josepha
The Goodness of Saint Rocque
Tony’s Wife
The Fisherman of Pass Christian
M’sieu Fortier’s Violin
By The Bayou St. John
When the Bayou Overflows
Mr. Baptiste
A Carnival Jangle
Little Miss Sophie
The Praline Woman
Odalie
La Juanita
Titee
A propos de l’auteur
Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875–1935) was an American poet, journalist, and political activist. Among the first generation born free in the South after the Civil War, she was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. Her first husband was the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar; she then married physician Henry A. Callis; and married, lastly, to Robert J. Nelson, a poet and civil rights activist. She achieved prominence as a poet, author of short stories and dramas, newspaper columnist, and editor of two anthologies.