Black American Short Stories A Century of the Best

Name: Black American Short Stories A Century of the Best
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ISBN: 9780374523541

ISBN-10: 0374523541

ISBN-13: 9780374523541

Edition: Revised

Authors: John Henrik Clarke

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The success of John Henrik Clarke's American Negro Short Stories, first published in 1966, affirmed the vitality and importance of black fiction. Now this expanded edition of that best-selling book, with a new title, offers the reader thirty-one stories included in the original—from Charles W. Chesnutt and Paul Laurence Dunbar in the late nineteenth century to the rich and productive work of the Harlem Renaissance: writers like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright; the World War II accomplishments of Chester Himes, Frank Yerby, and many others; and the later fiction of James Baldwin, Paule Marshall, and LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka). Seven additional contributions…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 1/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.30" wide x 7.95" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction


"The Lynching of Jube Benson,"



"On Being Crazy,"



"The Goophered Grapevine,"



"The City of Refuge,"



"The Overcoat,"



"Truant,"



"A Summer Tragedy,"



"The Gilded Six-Bits,"



"Bright and Morning Star,"



"The Boy Who Painted Christ Black,"



"One Friday Morning,"



"So Peaceful in the Country,"



"And/Or,"



"Fighter,"



"The Homecoming,"



"How John Boscoe Outsung the Devil,"



"Solo on the Drums,"



"Mama's Missionary Money,"



"See How They Run,"



"Exodus,"



"God Bless America,"



"Train Whistle Guitar,"



"The Senegalese,"



"A Matter of Time,"



"Cry for Me,"



"Reena,"



"The Convert,"



"The Winds of Change,"



"The Screamers,"



"Sarah,"



"The Sky Is Gray,"



"On Trains,"



"Marigolds,"



"Steady Going Up,"



"Everyday Use,"



"The Organizer's Wife,"



"Jesse,"



"The Wife,"



Biographical


Notes