#  Black Boys, Dolls, and Textual Histories: Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s “His Heart’s Desire” (1900) (American Antiquarian Society) 

 



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 **November 12, 2024** 

 07:00PM - 08:00PM EST 

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 **Online (Zoom). RSVP needed**  



 

 



 

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 This virtual forum features Jean Lutes (Villanova University), Denise Burgher (Colored Conventions Project), Trinity Rogers (Villanova University), and Brigitte Fielder (University of Wisconsin-Madison) of [Taught by Literature](https://www.taughtbyliterature.org/), a collaborative digital humanities project that re-centers Black women writers, beginning with the work of African American author and activist Alice Dunbar-Nelson. The speakers will use Dunbar-Nelson’s short story, “[His Heart’s Desire](https://www.taughtbyliterature.org/hisheartsdesire-taughtbyliterature)” (1900) to explore the challenges scholars face in recovering little-known African American texts when confronted by multiple textual variants, manuscripts without dates, and a readership unfamiliar with an author’s work. A remarkable short story about a boy who wants a doll, “His Heart’s Desire” is one of twelve short stories Dunbar-Nelson wrote in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries about children living in a poor urban neighborhood. The stories were inspired by her work teaching Black kindergarteners at the White Rose Mission in New York City.



 

 



 

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