{"product_id":"9780374523541-black-american-short-stories-one-hundred-years-of-the-best","title":"Farrar Straus \u0026 Giroux Inc - Black American Short Stories One Hundred Years Of The Best - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Black American Short Stories One Hundred Years Of The Best\u003cbr\u003e\nBrand: Farrar Straus \u0026amp; Giroux Inc\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780374523541\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 448 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 1\/1\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Black \u0026amp; Asian Studies","brand":"Farrar Straus \u0026 Giroux Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51710572658993,"sku":"IN-G-9780374523541","price":18.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780374523541-black-american-short-stories-one-hundred-years-of-the-best","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}