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The Sleeper Wakes : Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women / Marcy Knopf-Newman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [1993]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813559841
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.0108896073 20
LOC classification:
  • PS647.A35 S58 1993
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- The Sleeper Wakes -- Double Trouble -- Mary Elizabeth -- Wedding Day -- Free -- Funeral -- The Typewriter -- Prologue to a Life -- One Boy's Story -- Drab Rambles -- Nothing New -- The Closing Door -- Bathesda of Sinners Run -- The Foolish and the Wise: Sallie Runner Is Introduced to Socrates -- The Foolish and the Wise: Sanctum 777 N.S.D.C.O.U. Meets Cleopatra -- Cross Crossings Cautiously -- Three Dogs and a Rabbit -- Blue Aloes -- To a Wild Rose -- His Great Career -- Summer Session -- Masks -- Mademoiselle 'Tasie -- John Redding Goes to Sea -- The Bone of Contention -- Sanctuary -- The Wrong Man -- Freedom -- Biographical Notes -- Bibliography
Summary: In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in the art and culture of the Harlem Renaissance. Yet this significant collection is the first definitive edition of Harlem Renaissance stories by women. The writers include Gwendolyn Bennett, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimké, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Dorothy West. Published originally in periodicals such as The Crisis, Fire!!, and Opportunity, these twenty-seven stories have until now been virtually unavailable to readers. These stories are as compelling today as they were in the 1920s and 1930s. 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. Marcy Knopf's introduction surveys the history of the Harlem Renaissance, the periodicals and books it generated, and describes the rise to prominence of these women writers and their later fall from fame. She also includes a brief biography of each of the writers. Nellie Y. McKay's foreword analyzes the themes and concerns of the stories.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- The Sleeper Wakes -- Double Trouble -- Mary Elizabeth -- Wedding Day -- Free -- Funeral -- The Typewriter -- Prologue to a Life -- One Boy's Story -- Drab Rambles -- Nothing New -- The Closing Door -- Bathesda of Sinners Run -- The Foolish and the Wise: Sallie Runner Is Introduced to Socrates -- The Foolish and the Wise: Sanctum 777 N.S.D.C.O.U. Meets Cleopatra -- Cross Crossings Cautiously -- Three Dogs and a Rabbit -- Blue Aloes -- To a Wild Rose -- His Great Career -- Summer Session -- Masks -- Mademoiselle 'Tasie -- John Redding Goes to Sea -- The Bone of Contention -- Sanctuary -- The Wrong Man -- Freedom -- Biographical Notes -- Bibliography

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In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in the art and culture of the Harlem Renaissance. Yet this significant collection is the first definitive edition of Harlem Renaissance stories by women. The writers include Gwendolyn Bennett, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimké, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Dorothy West. Published originally in periodicals such as The Crisis, Fire!!, and Opportunity, these twenty-seven stories have until now been virtually unavailable to readers. These stories are as compelling today as they were in the 1920s and 1930s. 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. Marcy Knopf's introduction surveys the history of the Harlem Renaissance, the periodicals and books it generated, and describes the rise to prominence of these women writers and their later fall from fame. She also includes a brief biography of each of the writers. Nellie Y. McKay's foreword analyzes the themes and concerns of the stories.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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