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Title:

Black American short stories : one hundred years of the best / edited by John Henrik Clarke.

Publisher:

Hill and Wang,

Copyright Date:

1993

Description:

xxi, 421 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Short stories, American--African American authors.
African Americans--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Clarke, John Henrik, 1915-

Other Titles:

American Negro short stories.
Century of the best Black American short stories.

Notes:

Cover title: A Century of the best Black American short stories. Rev. ed. of: American Negro short stories. 1st ed. 1966.

Contents:

The wife / Jennifer Jordan. On being crazy / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The goophered grapevine / Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- The city of refuge / Rudolph Fisher -- The overcoat / John P. Davis -- Truant / Claude McKay -- A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps -- The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston -- Bright and morning star / Richard Wright -- The boy who painted Christ black / John Henrik Clarke -- One Friday morning / Langston Hughes -- So peaceful in the country / Carl Ruthven Offord -- And/or / Sterling Brown -- Fighter / John Caswell Smith -- The homecoming / Frank Yerby -- How John Boscoe outsung the devil / Arthur P. Davis -- Solo on the drums / Ann Petry -- Mama's missionary money / Chester Himes -- See how they run / Mary Elizabeth Vroman -- Exodus / James Baldwin -- God bless America / John O. Killens -- Train whistle guitar / Albert Murray -- The senegalese / Hoyt W. Fuller -- A matter of time / Frank London Brown -- Cry for me / William Melvin Kelley -- Reena / Paule Marshall -- The convert / Lerone Bennett, Jr. -- The winds of change / Loyle Hairston -- The screamers / LeRoi Jones -- Sarah / Martin J. Hamer -- The sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines -- On trains / James Allen McPherson -- Marigolds / Eugenia W. Collier -- Steady going up / Maya Angelou -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- The organizer's wife / Toni Cade Bambara -- Jesse / Rosemarie Robotham -- The wife / Jennifer Jordan.

ISBN:

9780374523541
0374523541

OCLC:

(OCoLC)26014905

LCCN:

92016249

Locations:

NHPD993 -- Belmond Public Library (Belmond)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)

TRPE062 -- Vinton Public Library (Vinton)