| Description |
xxxii, 600 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
A collection of short stories, comprising 36 writers from the United States and 34 writers from Europe and the Americas. |
| Contents |
Absolution / Ai -- My singular Irene / José Alcántara Almánzar -- Willie Bea and Jaybird / Tina McElroy Ansa -- The organizer's wife / Toni Cade Bambara -- Words / Amiri Baraka -- Miss Askew on ice / Hal Bennett -- I used to like the Dallas Cowboys / Dionne Brand -- The evening and the morning and the night / Octavia E. Butler -- Civilization / Oswaldo De Camargo -- They called her Aurora (the love of Donna Summer) / Aída Cartagena Portalatín -- Cherry bomb / Maxine Clair -- Griff / Austin C. Clarke -- Columba / Michelle Cliff -- The visit / Merle Collins -- Night thoughts / Christine Craig -- Avenues / Luiz Silva "Cuti" -- Tapestry / Samuel R. Delaney -- Rosena on the mountain / René Depestre -- Under the rose / Rita Dove -- Sweat, sugar, and blood / Suzanne Dracius-Pinalie -- Ark of bones / Henry Dumas -- A letter / Quince Duncan -- The miracle / Nelson Estupiñán Bass -- Randall Randall / Percival Everett -- This man and me / Guy-Mark Foster -- Three men / Ernest J. Gaines -- Accidents / Thomas Glave -- By love possessed / Lorna Goodison -- She wakes / Claire Harris -- Kanaima / Wilson Harris -- Presence / John Holman -- Circle of shade / Kelvin Christopher James -- Alēthia / Charles Johnson -- The first day / Edward P. Jones -- The fisherman's house / Gayl Jones -- Transits / John R. Keene -- My next-to-last hit / William Melvin Kelley -- The origin of whales / Randall Kenan -- Song of Roland / Jamaica Kincaid -- The blue room / Yanick Lahens -- Marriage bones / Helen Elaine Lee -- Shoemaker Arnold / Earl Lovelace -- City flesh and country manners / Clarence Major -- Some get wasted / Paule Marshall -- Specimen / John McCluskey Jr. -- The more I like flies / Reginald McKnight -- Quilting on the rebound / Terry McMillan -- Black pieces / Mark McMorris -- The story of a scar / James Alan McPherson -- I do not take messages from dead people / Pauline Melville -- A happy story / Opal Moore -- Recitatif / Toni Morrison -- A play / Bruce Morrow -- Voodoo / Walter Mosley -- Bewitched / Adalberto Ortiz -- The devil's maw / Stanley Péan -- Juby's morning / Richard Perry -- Stop frame / M. Nourbese Philip -- Yawetir / Alix Renaud -- Enough rides / Jewell Parker Rhodes -- Keep a secret / Esmeralda Ribeiro -- The inheritance of my father : a story for listening / Astrid Roemer -- The little white girl / Elio Ruiz -- This city of men / Darieck Scott -- You think I mad, Miss? / Olive Senior -- Her head a village / Makeda Silvera -- Sonatina for two drums / Carlos Arturo Truque -- Kembé / Ana Lydia Vega -- Nineteen fifty-five / Alice Walker -- Fever / John Edgar Wideman. |
| Subject |
Short stories -- Black authors.
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Short stories -- Black authors. |
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Short stories. |
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Short stories, American -- African American authors.
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Short stories, American. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Rowell, Charles H.
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| ISBN |
0813320283 alkaline paper |
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0813320291 alkaline paper |
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