Chamberlin Free Public Library Catalog

The Sleeper wakes :

The Sleeper wakes : Harlem renaissance stories by women / - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1993. - xxxix, 277 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-277).

Sleeper wakes ; Double trouble ; Mary Elizabeth / Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Wedding day / Gwendolyn Bennett -- Free / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Funeral ; Typewriter ; Prologue to a life / Dorothy West -- One boy's story ; Drab rambles ; Nothing new / Marita Bonner -- Closing door / Angelina Weld Grimke -- Bathesda of Sinners Run / Maude Irwin Owens -- Foolish and the wise: Sallie Runner is introduced to Socrates and Sanctum 777 N.S.D.C.O.U. meets Cleopatra / Leila Amos Pendleton -- Cross crossings cautiously ; Three dogs and a rabbit / Anita Scott Coleman -- Blue Aloes ; To a wild rose / Ottie Beatrice Graham -- His great career ; Summer session / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Masks ; Mademoiselle Tasie / Eloise Bibb Thompson -- John Redding goes to sea ; Bone of contention / Zora Neale Hurston -- Sanctuary ; Wrong man ; Freedom / Nella Larsen.

Twenty-eight stories with themes of black and white racial tension and misunderstanding, economic deprivation, passing, love across and within racial lines, and the attempt to maintain community and uplife the race.

0813519446 (cloth) : $40.00 9780813519449 (cloth) 0813519454 (pbk.) : $13.95 9780813519456 (pbk.)

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Geschichte 1912-1930.


Short stories, American--African American authors.
American fiction--New York (State)--New York.
American fiction--Women authors.
African American women--Fiction.
Harlem Renaissance.
Roman am�ericain--New York (N.Y.).
Roman am�ericain--Femmes �ecrivains.
Noirs am�ericains--Romans.--New York (N.Y.)
Harlem Renaissance.
Nouvelles am�ericaines--Auteurs noirs am�ericains.
Noires am�ericaines--Romans.
Anthologie.
Frauenliteratur.
Harlem renaissance.
Kurzgeschichte.


Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
Schwarze.
USA.


Short stories.

PS647.A35 / S58 1993

813/.0108896073