The Sleeper Wakes Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women |
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Author:
| Knopf, Marcy |
Contribution by:
| Bennett, Gwendolyn Bonner, Marita Colemand, Anita Scott Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Fauset, Jessie Redmon Graham, Ottie Beatrice Grimké, Angelina Weld Hurston, Zora Neale Johnson, Georgia Douglas Larsen, Nella Owens, Maude Irwin Pendleton, Leila Amos Thompson, Eloise Bibb West, Dorothy |
Foreword by:
| McKay, Nellie Y. |
ISBN: | 978-1-85242-317-9 |
Publication Date: | Feb 1994 |
Publisher: | Serpent's Tail Limited
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $32.95 |
Book Description:
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This first definitive edition of Harlem Renaissance stories by women includes twenty-eight stories that are as compelling today as they were in the 1920s and 1930s. Published originally in periodicals such as The Crisis, Fire!!, and Opportunity, these stories have until now been virtually unavailable to readers. In them, we find the themes of black and white racial tension and misunderstanding, economic deprivation, passing, love across and within racial lines, and the attempt to...
More DescriptionThis first definitive edition of Harlem Renaissance stories by women includes twenty-eight stories that are as compelling today as they were in the 1920s and 1930s. Published originally in periodicals such as The Crisis, Fire!!, and Opportunity, these stories have until now been virtually unavailable to readers. In them, we find the 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 uplift the race.