| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 355 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
The two offers / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- After many day : a Christmas story / Fannie Barrier Williams -- The stones of the village / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Mary Elizabeth / Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Goldie / Angelina Weld Grimke -- One boy's story / Marita Bonner -- Sanctuary / Nella Larsen -- The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston -- The typewriter / Dorothy West -- See how they run / Mary Elizabeth Vroman -- Miss Muriel / Ann Petry -- Key to the city / Diane Oliver -- To Da-duh, in memoriam / Paule Marshall -- To hell with dying / Alice Walker -- Tell Martha not to moan / Sherley Anne Williams -- Marigolds / Eugenia W. Collier -- After Saturday night comes Sunday / Sonia Sanchez -- My Man Bovanne / Toni Cade Bambara -- Jevata / Gayl Jones -- Sister Detroit / Colleen McElroy -- Comin to terms / Ntozake Shange -- Requiem for Willie Lee / Frenchy Hodges -- Damon and Vandalia / Rita Dove -- The world of Rosie Polk / Ann Allen Shockley -- Hoodoo / Connie Porter -- Willie Bea and Jaybird / Tina McElroy Ansa -- Song of Roland / Jamaica Kincaid. |
| Summary |
Twenty-seven stories by black American women. They write on being abandoned by men, on maintaining spiritual strength and on the search for an identity. With biographies of the writers. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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American fiction -- African American authors.
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American fiction -- Women authors.
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African American women -- Fiction.
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African Americans -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Hamer, Judith A.
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Hamer, Martin J.
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| ISBN |
0809015765 |
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9780809015764 |
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