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The Sleeper wakes : Harlem renaissance stories by women /

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1993.Description: xxxix, 277 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0813519446 (cloth) :
  • 9780813519449 (cloth)
  • 0813519454 (pbk.) :
  • 9780813519456 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.0108896073 20
LOC classification:
  • PS647.A35 S58 1993
Other classification:
  • 18.06
  • HU 2501
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
F F Chamberlin Free Public Library Fiction F SLE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) PS647.A35 S58 1993 1 Available 34517000138696

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.

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