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The Sleeper Wakes

Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women

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Produktbeschreibung

This significant collection is the first definitive edition of Harlem Renaissance stories by women. These 27 stories have been virtually unavailable to readers until now. Contributors include Gwendolyn Bennett, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimke, Zora Neale Huston, Nella Larsen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Ann Petry, and Dorothy West.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 447g
• ISBN-13: 9780813519456
• ISBN-10: 0813519454
• Artikelnr.: 21486532

Autorenporträt

Marcy Knopf is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati. Nellie Y. McKay is Professor of American and Afro-American Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Jessie Redmon Faucet - 
The Sleeper Wakes
Double Trouble
Mary Elizabeth
Gwendolyn Bennett - 
Wedding Day
Georgia Douglas Johnson - 
Free
Dorothy West - 
Funeral
The Typewriter
Prologue to a Life
Marita Bonner - 
One Boy's Story
Drab Rambles
Nothing New
Angelina Weld Grimke - 
The Closing Door
Maude Irwen Owens - 
Bathesda of Sinners Run
Leila Amos Pendleton - 
The Foolish and the Wise: Sallie Runner is Introduced to Socrates and
Sactum 777 N.S.D.C.O.U Meets Cleopatra
Anita Scott Coleman - 
Cross Crossings Cautiously
Three Dogs and a Rabbit
Ottie Beatrice Graham -
Blue Aloes
To a Wild Rose
Alice Dunbar-Nelson - 
His Great Career
Summer Session
Eloise Bibb Thompson - 
Masks
Mademoiselle 'Tasie
Zora Neale Hurston - 
John Redding Goes to Sea
The Bone of Contention
Nella Larsen -  
Sanctuary
The Wrong Man
Freedom
Biographical Notes
Bibliography