| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxv, 622 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"An Edward Burlingame book." |
| Contents |
The Goophered grapevine / Charles Chesnutt -- The ingrate / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Mary Elizabeth / Jessie Fauset -- Esther / Jean Toomer -- The hands: a story / Marita Bonner -- Sanctuary / Nella Larsen -- Truant / Claude McKay -- A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps -- Miss Cynthie / Rudolph Fisher -- The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston -- Headwaiter / Chester Himes -- Bright and morning star / Richard Wright -- Jack in the pot / Dorothy West -- Flying home / Ralph |
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Ellison -- Who's passing for who? / Langston Hughes -- The only man on Liberty street / William Melvin Kelley -- Come out the wilderness / James Baldwin -- Has anybody seen Miss Dora Dean? / Ann Petry -- Mother dear and daddy / Junius Edwards -- Blues for Pablo / John Stewart -- Son in the afternoon / John A. Williams -- What's your problem? / Robert Boles -- The distributors / Henry Dumas. |
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Wade / Rosa Guy -- Key to the city / Diane Oliver -- The alternative / LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) -- To da-duh, in memoriam / Paule Marshall -- A new day / Charles Wright -- Night and loves of Joe dicostanzo / Samuel R. Delany -- The lookout / Cyrus Colter -- A long day in November / Ernest J. Gaines -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- The story of a scar / James Alan McPherson -- Soldiers / Ellease Southerland -- Roselily / Alice Walker -- White rat / Gayl Jones -- |
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Lomios / Edgar Nkose White -- The education of Mingo / Charles Johnson -- Scat / Clarence Major -- Now is the time / Cecil M. Brown -- Damballah / John Edgar Wideman -- Kiswana Browne / Gloria Naylor -- Recitatif / Toni Morrison -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Chitterling / Henry Van Dyke -- Jesus and Fat Tuesday / Colleen J. McElroy -- The world of Rosie Polk / Ann Allen Shockley -- Mali is very dangerous / Reginald McKnight -- Her mother's prayers on fire / Don Belton -- |
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Wings of the dove / Hal Bennett -- Zazoo / Larry Duplechan -- Guess who's coming to Seder / Trey Ellis -- Top of the game / John McCluskey Jr. -- Going to meet Aaron / |
| Subject |
Short stories, American -- African American authors.
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African Americans -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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American fiction -- 20th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Major, Clarence.
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| ISBN |
0060982012 paper $12.00 |
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0060183373 cloth $30.00 ($40.00 Can.) |
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