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The success of John Henrik Clarke’s American Negro Short Stories, first published in 1966, affirmed the vitality and importance of black fiction. Now this expanded edition of that best-selling book, with a new title, offers the reader thirty-one stories included in the original―from Charles W. Chesnutt and Paul Laurence Dunbar in the late nineteenth century to the rich and productive work of the Harlem Renaissance: writers like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright; the World War II accomplishments of Chester Himes, Frank Yerby, and many others; and the later fiction of James Baldwin, Paule Marshall, and LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka). Seven additional contributions round out a century of great stories with the work of Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Eugenia Collier, Jennifer Jordan, James Allan McPherson, Rosemarie Robotham, and Alice Walker. Dr. Clarke has included a new introduction to this 1993 edition, and a short biography of each contributor.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hill and Wang
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 1993
Edition ‏ : ‎ Expanded,Subsequent
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0374523541
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0374523541
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 1.13 x 8 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #771,608 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #5,634 in Short Stories Anthologies #6,435 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction #15,265 in Black & African American Literature (Books)
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