Revolutionary Tales: African American Women's Short Stories, from the First Story to the Present
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Title
Revolutionary Tales: African American Women's Short Stories, from the First Story to the Present
This edition
"Revolutionary Tales: African American Women's Short Stories, from the First Story [in 1859] to the Present" . Ed. Bill Mullen. New York: Laurel, 1995. xxxi+510 pp.
Table of contents
The two offers / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Aunt Lindy : a story founded on real life / Victoria Earle Matthews -- Black is, as black does : (a dream) / Angelina Weld Grimké -- The stones of the village / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- "As the Lord lives, He is one of our mother's children" / Pauline E. Hopkins -- The taming of a modern shrew / Ruth D. Todd -- Emmy / Jessie Fauset -- My house and a glimpse of my life therein / Jessie Fauset -- Drenched in light / Zora Neale Hurston -- The typewriter / Dorothy West -- Wedding day / Gwendolyn Bennett -- Sanctuary / Nella Larsen -- Mrs. Adis / Sheila Kaye-Smith -- A possible triad on black notes / Marita Bonner -- The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston -- Part of the pack : another view of night life in Harlem / Hazel V. Campbell -- Mob madness / Marion Cuthbert -- Conjure man / Octavia B. Wynbush -- Justice wears dark glasses / Grace W. Tompkins -- Like a winding sheet / Ann Petry -- All that hair / Melissa Linn -- Like one of the family ; Got to go someplace ; Sometimes I feel so sorry ; About those colored movies / Alice Childress -- Has anybody seen Miss Dora Dean? / Ann Petry -- A sound of crying / Anita R. Cornwell -- Neighbors / Diane Oliver -- Not your singing, dancing spade / Julia Fields -- A revolutionary tale / Nikki Giovanni -- Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- A ceremony of innocence / Arthenia Bate (Millican) -- White rat / Gayl Jones -- Babies / Becky Birtha -- Play it, but don't say it / Ann Allen Shockley -- Color me real / J. California Cooper -- The spray paint king / Rita Dove -- A house full of Maude / Colleen McElroy -- Ma'Dear / Terry McMillan -- In the city of sleep / Wanda Coleman -- The last day of school / Maxine Clair.
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Cited in
not in Kinnamon 1997]
Item Number
A0295