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Black short story anthology. / Edited by Woodie King.
LIBRA - Rare PS647.N35 K5 1972 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Woodie, Jr., 1937- compiler.
- Series:
- Signet book ; J5204.
- A Signet book ; J5204
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American.
- American fiction--African American authors.
- American fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Short stories, American.
- Fiction.
- Anthologie.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 381 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New American Library 1972.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The smoking sixties / John Oliver Killens
- A revolutionary tale / Nikki Giovanni
- Frankie Mae / Jean Wheeler Smith
- Harlem Transfer / E.K. Walker
- Dandy, or Astride the Funky Finger of Lust / Ed Bullins
- Sonny's not blue / Sam Greenlee
- Testimonial / Paula Hankins
- The ray / Ronald Milner
- A good season / John A. Williams
- The alternative / Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
- Strong horse tea / Alice Walker
- A love song for Wing / Charles H. Fuller, Jr.
- The convert / Lerone Bennett, Jr.
- Not your singing, dancing spade / Julia Fields
- A happening in Barbados / Louise M. Meriwether
- Early Autumn / Langston Hughes
- Just like a tree / Ernest Gaines
- Not we many / Clarence L. Cooper, Jr.
- See what tomorrow brings / James W. Thompson
- A coupla scalped Indians / Ralph Ellison
- Come out the wilderness / James Baldwin
- The game / Woodie King
- The poker party / William Melvin Kelly
- The contraband / S.E. Anderson
- Liars Don't Qualify / Junius Edwards
- Like a piece of blues / George Davis
- The enemy / J.E. Franklin
- Loimos / Edgar White
- The flogging / Ron Milner.
- Notes:
- Publisher's advertisements: [3] pages at end.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy is "First Printing, October, 1972".
- Banks Collection copy has front cover disbound.
- OCLC:
- 548260
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