Revolutionary tales : African American women's short stories, from the first story to the present / edited by Bill Mullen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mullen, Bill, 1959-

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Dell fiction.

Dell fiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

American fiction--African American authors.

American fiction.

American fiction--Women authors.

African American women--Fiction.

African American women.

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Fiction.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 510 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm.

Distribution:

New York : Published by Dell Publishing a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] : Laurel, ©1995.

Summary:

This is the first compilation of short stories by African American women to focus on the development of this genre from 1859 to 1994. They present cultural truths, historical roots asd self-images in the context of the African American experience & the times in which they lived.

Contents:

The two offers (1859) / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Aunt Lindy: a story founded on real life (1893) / Victoria Earle Matthews

Black is, as black does (a dream) (1900) / Angelina Weld Grimké

The stones of the village (1900-1910) / Alice Dunbar-Nelson

"As the Lord lives, He is one of our mother's children" (1903) / Pauline E. Hopkins

The taming of a modern shrew (1904) / Ruth D. Todd

Emmy (1913-1914) / Jessie Fauset

My house and a glimpse of my life therein (914) / Jessie Fauset

Drenched in light (1924) / Zora Neale Hurston

The typewriter (1926) / Dorothy West

Wedding day (1926) / Gwendolyn Bennett

Sanctuary (1930) / Nella Larsen

Mrs. Adis (1922) / Sheila Kaye-Smith

A possible triad on black notes (1933) / Marita Bonner

The gilded six-bits (1933) / Zora Neale Hurston

Part of the pack: another view of night life in Harlem (1935) / Hazel V. Campbell

Mob madness (1936) / Marion Cuthbert

Conjure man (1938) / Octavia B. Wynbush

Justice wears dark glasses (1944) / Grace W. Tompkins

Like a winding sheet (1945) / Ann Petry

All that hair (1946) / Melissa Linn

Like one of the family; Got to go someplace; Sometimes I feel so sorry; About those colored movies (1956) / Alice Childress

Has anybody seen Miss Dora Dean? (1958) / Ann Petry

A sound of crying (1964) / Anita R. Cornwell

Neighbors (1966) / Diane Oliver

Not your singing, dancing spade (1967) / Julia Fields

A revolutionary tale (1971) / Nikki Giovanni

Gorilla, my love (1972) / Toni Cade Bambara

Everyday use (1973) / Alice Walker

A ceremony of innocence (1975) / Arthenia Bates (Millican)

White rat (1977) / Gayl Jones

Babies (1979) / Becky Birtha

Play it, but don't say it (1980) / Ann Allen Shockley

Color me real (1984) / J. California Cooper

The spray paint king (1985) / Rita Dove

A house full of Maude (1987) / Colleen McElroy

Ma'Dear (1987) / Terry McMillan

In the city of sleep (1988) / Wanda Coleman

The last day of school (1994) / Maxine Clair.

Notes:

"A Laurel Book"

"A Groundbreaking Collection - 44 Stories, 36 Authors, 150 Years of Proud History"--Cover.

"December 1995"

Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-510).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0440220823 :

9780440220824

OCLC:

33475469

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