In:The Black American Short Story in the 20th Century: A Collection of Critical Essays
Edited by Peter Bruck
[Not in series - Grüner 133] 1977
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 1 January 1977
https://doi.org/10.1075/zg.133.toc
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Table of contents
Prefacevii
Black American Short Fiction in the 20th Century: Problems of Audience, and the Evolution of Artistic Stances and Themes
Charles Waddell Chesnutt the Sheriff's Children (1889)
Paul Laurence Dunbar The Scapegoat (1904)
Jean Toomer FERN (1922)
Langston Hughes The BlUes i'm Playing (1934)
Chester Himes A Nigger(1937)
Richard Wright Fire and Cloud (1938)
Ralph Ellison King of the Bingo Game(1944)
William Melvin Kelley the Poker Party (1961)
John A. Williams Son in the Afternoon (1962)
Ernest J. Gaines a Long Day in November (1963)
James Baldwin Going to Meet the MaN (1965)
Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) The Alternative (1965)
Selected Bibliography
Contributors209
