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Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc - Black American Short Stories One Hundred Years Of The Best - Paperback
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Description: 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 Le Roi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka). Seven additional contributions round out a century of great stories with the work of Maya Angelou Toni Cade Bambara Eugenia Collier Jennifer Jordan James Allan Mc Pherson Rosemarie Robotham and Alice Walker. Dr. Clarke has included a new introduction to this 1993 edition and a short biography of each contributor.
Title: Black American Short Stories One Hundred Years Of The Best
Brand: Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc
Barcode: 9780374523541
Pages: 448 Pages
Publication Date: 1/1/1993
Category: Black & Asian Studies
Description: 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 Le Roi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka). Seven additional contributions round out a century of great stories with the work of Maya Angelou Toni Cade Bambara Eugenia Collier Jennifer Jordan James Allan Mc Pherson Rosemarie Robotham and Alice Walker. Dr. Clarke has included a new introduction to this 1993 edition and a short biography of each contributor.
Title: Black American Short Stories One Hundred Years Of The Best
Brand: Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc
Barcode: 9780374523541
Pages: 448 Pages
Publication Date: 1/1/1993
Category: Black & Asian Studies