American Negro short stories.
Title:
American Negro short stories.
Personal Author:
Edition:
[1st ed.].
Publication Information:
New York, Hill and Wang [1966]
Physical Description:
xix, 355 pages 21 cm
Abstract:
These stories provide an insight into the inner life, thinking and aspirations of Negro Americans.
Added Title Contained Works:
Lynching of Jube Benson.
Goophered grapevine.
Overcoat.
City of refuge.
Summer tragedy.
Gilded six-bits.
Boy who painted Christ black.
Homecoming.
Senegalese.
Matter of time.
Convert.
Winds of change.
Screamers.
Sky is gray.
Contents:
The lynching of Jube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- On being crazy / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The goophered grapevine / Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- The city of refuge / Rudolph Fisher -- The overcoat / John P. Davis -- Truant / Claude McKay -- A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps -- The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston -- Bright and morning star / Richard Wright -- The boy who painted Christ black / John Henrik Clarke -- One Friday morning / Langston Hughes -- So peaceful in the country / Carl Ruthven Offord -- And/or / Sterling Brown -- Fighter / John Caswell Smith -- The homecoming / Frank Yerby -- How John Boscoe outsung the devil / Arthur P. Davis -- Solo on the drums / Ann Petry -- Mama's missionary money / Chester Himes -- See how they run / Mary Elizabeth Vroman -- Exodus / James Baldwin -- God bless America / John O. Killens -- Train whistle guitar / Albert Murray -- The Senegalese / Hoyt W. Fuller -- A matter of time / Frank London Brown -- Cry for me / William Melvin Kelley -- Reena / Paule Marshall -- The convert / Lerone Bennett, Jr. -- The winds of change / Loyle Hairston -- The screamers / LeRoi Jones -- Sarah / Martin J. Hamer -- The sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines.