Down home : a history of Afro-American short fiction from its beginnings to the end of the Harlem Renaissance
New perspectives on Black America
New perspectives on Black America.
The masks of slavery: 1885-1920 : Literary forebears : The black abolitionists -- The local-color school -- The plantation school -- The oral tradition : The Afro-American folktale -- Mask and countermask -- The Brer Rabbit tales -- Paul Dunbar : Life and work -- The age of Washington -- Washington and Dunbar -- Dunbar and the minstrel mask -- Representative stories -- Charles Chesnutt : Life and work -- The conjure woman -- The wife of his youth -- "Baxter's Procrustes" -- The masks of Arcady: 1920-1935 : The Harlem renaissance: a reappraisal : Portrait of a generation -- The primacy of literary form -- The folk experience -- Impulse toward the picaresque -- From picaresque to pastoral -- The myth of primitivism -- The possibilities of pastoral -- Three versions of pastoral : Zora Hurston -- Rudolph Fisher -- Claude McKay -- Eric Walrond : Life and work -- Apprentice fiction -- Lafcadio Hearn and Pierre Loti -- Tropic death -- Jean Toomer : Life and work -- Waldo Frank and his Milieu -- Our America and city block -- Three stories from cane -- The gurdjieff phase -- The angelic imagination -- Langston Hughes : Life and work -- The making of a satirist -- The ways of white folks -- From satire to celebration -- Laughing to keep from crying -- Epilogue: Arna Bontemps : Life and work -- California memoirs -- Alabama tales -- From Harlem to Chicago renaissance.
