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James David Corrothers (1869–1917) was an African-American poet, journalist, and minister whom editor T. Thomas Fortune called "the coming poet of the race." When he died, W. E. B. Du Bois eulogized him as "a serious loss to the race and to literature."〔Gaines, Kevin. "Assimilationist minstrelsy as racial uplift ideology: James D. Corrothers's literary quest for black leadership." American Quarterly (1993): 341〕〔"The Looking Glass," ''The Crisis,'' April 1917 p. 287〕 Corrothers was born in Michigan and grew up in a small town of anti-slavery activists who settled before the war. He attended Northwestern University in Chicago but left to work a newspaper reporter. He met Frederick Douglass at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition〔James D. Corrothers, ''In Spite of the Handicap'' (New York: George H. Doran Company) 1916〕〔Bruce, Dickson D. "James Corrothers Reads a Book; or, the Lives of Sandy Jenkins." African American Review (1992): 665-673.〕Corrothers gained early fame with his volume of poetry in "Negro dialect" but later expressed his regret about the volume.〔Kevin Gaines "Assimilationist minstrelsy as Racial Uplift Ideology: James D. Corrothers's Literary Quest for Black Leadership." ''American Quarterly'' (1993)〕 Corrothers thought that poetry in "standard English" was more appropriate for the twentieth century. In his autobiography, Corrothers claimed credit for bringing another poet's work, Paul Laurence Dunbar's, to the attention of William Dean Howells〔James D. Corrothers, ''In Spite of the Handicap'' (New York: George H. Doran Company) 1916, p. 143-144.〕 Corrothers shared a long friendship with his contemporary Paul Laurence Dunbar 〔Alexander, Eleanor. ''Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow: The Tragic Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore: a History of Love and Violence Among the African American Elite''. NYU Press, 2001. p. 15〕 and, after Dunbar's death, memorialized him with the poem "Paul Laurence Dunbar," published in ''Century Magazine'' (1912). In 1922, James Weldon Johnson published seven poems by Corrothers in the anthology ''The Book of American Negro Poetry'' (1922). ==Works== * ''The Snapping of the Bow'', 1901 * ''The Black Cat Club'', 1902 * ''At the Closed Gate of Justice'', 1913 * ''In Spite of the Handicap'', 1916 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James D. Corrothers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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