Black Short Story Anthology
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Title
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Black Short Story Anthology
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This edition
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"Black Short Story Anthology" . Ed. Woodie King, Jr. New York: Columbia UP, 1972. xviii+19-381 pp.; New York: New American Library, 1972. xviii+381 pp.
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Table of contents
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● Introduction: John Oliver Killens / The Smoking Sixties
● Nikki Giovanni / A Revolutionary Tale
● Jean Wheeler Smith / Frankie Mae
● E.K. Walker / Harlem Transfer
● Ed Bullins / Dandy, or Astride the Funky Finger of Lust
● Sam Greenlee / Sonny's not Blue
● Paula Hankins / Testimonial
● Ronald Milner / The Ray
● John A. Williams / A Good Season
● Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) / The Alternative
● Alice Walker / Strong Horse Tea
● Charles H. Fuller, Jr. / A Love Song for Wing
● Lerone Bennett, Jr. / The Convert
● Julia Fields / Not Your Singing, Dancing Spade
● Louise M. Meriwether / A Happening in Barbados
● Langston Hughes / Early Autumn
● Ernest Gaines / Just Like a Tree
● Clarence L. Cooper, Jr. / Not We Many
● James W. Thompson / See What Tomorrow Brings
● Ralph Ellison / A Coupla Scalped Indians
● James Baldwin / Come Out the Wilderness
● Woodie King / The Game
● William Melvin Kelly / The Poker Party
● S.E. Anderson / The Contraband
● Junius Edwards / Liars Don't Qualify
● George Davis / Like a Piece of Blues
● J.E. Franklin / The Enemy
● Edgar White / Loimos
● Ron Milner / The Flogging
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Publisher's description
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"Twenty-nine stories from the 1950s and 1960s that bring the reader to a profounder understanding of the Black experience" (from ad copy for this volume, in "PMLA" 882 [March 1973]: 344).
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Reviews and notices of anthology
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• n/a
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Cited in
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Kinnamon 1997: 472, gives Woodie King and John O. Killens as editors]
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Item Number
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A0177
