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Ebony rising : short fiction of the greater Harlem Renaissance era / edited by Craig Gable

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Contents
Hope deferred / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- The closing door / Angelina Weld Grimké -- Mary Elizabeth / Jessie Redmon Fauset -- The comet / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The foolish and the wise: Sallie Runner is introduced to Socrates ; The Foolish and the wise: Sanctum 777 N.S.D.C.O.U. meets Cleopatra / Leila Amos Pendleton -- Becky ; Esther / Jean Toomer -- Vignettes of the dusk / Eric Walrond -- Blue aloes ; Slackened caprice / Ottie B. Graham -- The city of refuge / Rudolph Fisher -- The golden penknife / S. Miller Johnson -- Mademoiselle 'Tasie / Eloise Bibb Thompson -- Grist in the mill / Wallace Thurman -- Hannah Byde / Dorothy West -- Muttsy ; The Eatonville anthology / Zora Neale Hurston -- Cordelia the crude / Wallace Thurman -- Smoke, lilies and jade / Richard Bruce Nugent -- Wedding day / Gwendolyn B. Bennett -- City love / Eric Walrond -- Lynching for profit / George S. Schuyler -- Highball / Claude McKay -- Game / Eugene Gordon -- Masks / Eloise Bibb Thompson -- Bathesda of Sinners Run / Maude Irwin Owens -- He must think it out / Florida Ruffin Ridley -- Anthropoi / John F. Matheus -- Prologue to a life / Dorothy West -- Sanctuary / Nella Larsen -- Door-stops / May Miller -- Cross crossings cautiously / Anita Scott Coleman -- Why Adam ate the apple / Mercedes Gilbert -- The needle's point / J. Saunders Redding -- Crazy Mary / Claude McKay -- His last day / Chester Himes -- A summer tragedy ; Barrel staves / Arna Bontemps -- Why, you reckon ; Spanish blood / Langston Hughes -- John Archer's nose / Rudolph Fisher -- Mob madness / Marion Vera Cuthbert -- Gesture / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Pope Pius the only / Richard Bruce Nugent -- Silt / Richard Wright -- The return of a modern prodigal / Octavia B. Wynbush -- Hate is nothing ; The whipping / Marita Bonner -- A modern fable / Chester Himes -- A matter of record / Ted Posten -- Girl, colored / Marian Minus
Data Source
Smithsonian Libraries
Date
2004
C2004
20th century
Author
Gable, Craig 1967-
Type
Fiction
Physical description
xlii, 552 p. ; 24 cm
Place
New York (State)
New York
Topic
Short stories, American
American fiction--African American authors
American fiction
African Americans
Harlem Renaissance
Record ID
siris_sil_826155
Usage
CC0

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