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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.
Contributor:
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
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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