Douglas A Jones Jr.

Associate Professor of Theater Studies

Theater Studies

douglas.a.jones@duke.edu

Campus Box 90680, Durham, NC 27708

Campus Box 90680, Durham, NC 27708

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Repetition and Value in Richard Wright’s Man Who Lived Underground

Journal Article American Literature · March 1, 2023 This essay considers how Richard Wright’s newly released novel, The Man Who Lived Underground (2021), offers a profound black existentialist rumination on suffering, alienation, pleasure, and aesthetic experience. Homing in on the novel’s use of figures of ... Full text Cite

Elizabeth McHenry, To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship

Journal Article American Literary History · February 20, 2023 Full text Cite

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR The life and times of a caged bird

Journal Article TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT · 2023 Cite

One Form of Naming

· 2009 Cite

Drinking Slow, Waiting for Weather

· 2009 Cite