The success of John Henrik Clarke's American Negro Short Stories, first published in 1966, affirmed the vitality and importance of black fiction.
Now this expanded edition of that best-selling book, with a new title, offers the reader thirty-one stories included in the original--from Charles W.
Chesnutt and Paul Laurence Dunbar in the late nineteenth century to the rich and productive work of the Harlem Renaissance: writers like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright; the World War II accomplishments of Chester Himes, Frank Yerby, and many others; and the later fiction of James Baldwin, Paule Marshall, and Le Roi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka).
Seven additional contributions round out a century of great stories with the work of Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Eugenia Collier, Jennifer Jordan, James Allan Mc Pherson, Rosemarie Robotham, and Alice Walker.
Clarke has included a new introduction to this 1993 edition, and a short biography of each contributor.
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Hill & Wang Black american short stories: a century of the best, paperback/john henrik clarke
