The complete stories / Zora Neale Hurston ; introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Sieglinde Lemke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hurston, Zora Neale, author.

Contributor:

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., writer of introduction.

Lemke, Sieglinde, writer of introduction.

Walker, Alice, 1944- writer of added commentary.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Standardized Title:

Short stories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Genre:

Fiction.

Publishers' advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 2391) (Schimmel Fiction 6038))

Physical Description:

xxiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 305 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 34 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London ; Toronto ; Sydney : HarperPerennial ModernClassics, 2008.

Summary:

From the Publisher: This landmark gathering of Zora Neale Hurston's short fiction-most of which appeared only in literary magazines during her lifetime-reveals the evolution of one of the most important African American writers. Spanning her career from 1921 to 1955, these stories attest to Hurston's tremendous range and establish themes that recur in her longer fiction. With rich language and imagery, the stories in this collection not only map Hurston's development and concerns as a writer but also provide an invaluable reflection of the mind and imagination of the author of the acclaimed novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Contents:

Introduction / Henry Louis Gates, Jr and Sieglinde Lemke

John Redding goes to sea (May 1921)

Drenched in light (December 1924)

Spunk (June 1925)

Magnolia flower (July 1925)

Muttsy (August 1926)

Possum or pig? (September 1926)

Eatonville anthology (September-November 1926)

Sweat (November 1926)

Gilded six-bits (August 1933)

Mother Catherine (1934)

Uncle Monday (1934)

Fire and the cloud (September 1934)

Cock Robin Beale Street (July 1941)

Story in Harlem slang (July 1942)

High John De Conquer (October 1943)

Hurricane (1946)

Conscience of the court (March 1950)

Escape from Pharaoh (1950)

Tablets of the law (1951)

Black death

Bone of contention

Book of Harlem

Harlem slanguage

Now you cookin' with gas

Seventh veil

Woman in Gaul

Afterword / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Notes:

Reprint with new P.S section. Previously published: New York : HarperCollins, 1995.

P.S. section includes: "In search of Zora Neale Hurston" by Alice Walker.

Publisher's advertisements at end of volume.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-305).

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 2391) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 6038) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

ISBN:

9780061350184

0061350184

OCLC:

148888901