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Ancestral house the Black short story in the Americas and Europe
Title
Ancestral house [electronic resource] : the Black short story in the Americas and Europe / edited by Charles H. Rowell.
ISBN
0813320283
9780813320281
0813320291
9780813320298
Published
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1995.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxxii, 600 pages)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Seventy stories by Black writers from around the world, half from the U.S. In William Melvin Kelley's My Next-to-Last Hit, a Harvard-educated killer engages in a philosophical discussion with his victim before shooting him, Pauline Melville's I Do Not Take Messages from Dead People is on the fate of a radio reporter in Guyana who insults the vice-president, and Ernest J. Gaines' Three Men is on jail as a rite-of-passage for Blacks in becoming men.
Variant and related titles
Black short fiction and folklore. OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: Ancestral house. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1995
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 29, 2024
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxv-xxvi).
Contents
Absolution / Ai
My singular Irene / José Alcántara Almánzar
Willie Bea and Jaybird / Tina McElroy Ansa
The organizer's wife / Toni Cade Bambara
Words / Amiri Baraka
Miss Askew on ice / Hal Bennett
I used to like the Dallas Cowboys / Dionne Brand
The evening and the morning and the night / Octavia E. Butler
Civilization / Oswaldo De Camargo
They called her Aurora (the love of Donna Summer) / Aída Cartagena Portalatín
Cherry bomb / Maxine Clair
Griff / Austin C. Clarke
Columba / Michelle Cliff
The visit / Merle Collins
Night thoughts / Christine Craig
Avenues / Luiz Silva "Cuti"
Tapestry / Samuel R. Delaney
Rosena on the mountain / René Depestre
Under the rose / Rita Dove
Sweat, sugar, and blood / Suzanne Dracius-Pinalie
Ark of bones / Henry Dumas
A letter / Quince Duncan
The miracle / Nelson Estupiñán Bass
Randall Randall / Percival Everett
This man and me / Guy-Mark Foster
Three men / Ernest J. Gaines
Accidents / Thomas Glave
By love possessed / Lorna Goodison
She wakes / Claire Harris
Kanaima / Wilson Harris
Presence / John Holman
Circle of shade / Kelvin Christopher James
Alēthia / Charles Johnson
The first day / Edward P. Jones
The fisherman's house / Gayl Jones
Transits / John R. Keene
My next-to-last hit / William Melvin Kelley
The origin of whales / Randall Kenan
Song of Roland / Jamaica Kincaid
The blue room / Yanick Lahens
Marriage bones / Helen Elaine Lee
Shoemaker Arnold / Earl Lovelace
City flesh and country manners / Clarence Major
Some get wasted / Paule Marshall
Specimen / John McCluskey Jr.
The more I like flies / Reginald McKnight
Quilting on the rebound / Terry McMillan
Black pieces / Mark McMorris
The story of a scar / James Alan McPherson
I do not take messages from dead people / Pauline Melville
A happy story / Opal Moore
Recitatif / Toni Morrison
A play / Bruce Morrow
Voodoo / Walter Mosley
Bewitched / Adalberto Ortiz
The devil's maw / Stanley Péan
Juby's morning / Richard Perry
Stop frame / M. Nourbese Philip
Yawetir / Alix Renaud
Enough rides / Jewell Parker Rhodes
Keep a secret / Esmeralda Ribeiro
The inheritance of my father : a story for listening / Astrid Roemer
The little white girl / Elio Ruiz
This city of men / Darieck Scott
You think I mad, Miss? / Olive Senior
Her head a village / Makeda Silvera
Sonatina for two drums / Carlos Arturo Truque
Kembé / Ana Lydia Vega
Nineteen fifty-five / Alice Walker
Fever / John Edgar Wideman.
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short stories.
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Short stories.
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