Ebony
Rising
SHORT FICTION OF THE
GREATER HARLEM
RENAISSANCE ERA
Edited by Craig Gable
SUB Gottingen
219 090 181
7
2006 A 10435
Indiana University Press
BLOOMINGTON AND INDIANAPOLIS
CONTENTS
Preface Craig Gable xi
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction Darryl Dickson-Carr xxi
1912-1919 1
1
2
3
1920
4
1921
5
Hope Deferred (1914) Alice Dunbar-Nelson 5
The Closing Door (1919) Angelina Weld Grimke 12
Mary Elizabeth (1919) Jessie Redmon Fauset 31
39
The Comet (1920)
W.E.B.DuBois
41
53
The Foolish and the Wise:
Sallie Runner Is Introduced
to Socrates (1921) Leila Amos Pendleton 55
1922 61
6
7
1923
8
1924
9
10
11
The Foolish and the Wise:
Sanctum 777 N. S. D. C. O. U. Meets Cleopatra
(1922) Leila Amos Pendleton 63
Becky (1922) JeanToomer 68
71
Esther (1923)
JeanToomer
73
79
Vignettes of the Dusk (1924) EricWalrond 81
Blue Aloes (1924) Ottie B.Graham 85
Slackened Caprice (1924) Ottie B.Graham 96
VII
1925 103
12
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1926
15
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20
21
1927
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23
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1928
27
28
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1929
30
VIII
The City of Refuge (1925) Rudolph Fisher 105
The Golden Penknife (1925) S. Miller Johnson 118
Mademoiselle Tasie (1925) Eloise Bibb Thompson 136
145
Grist in the Mill (1926) Wallace Thurman 147
Hannah Byde (1926) Dorothy West 155
Muttsy(1926) Zora Neale Hurston 162
The Eatonville Anthology (1926)
Zora Neale Hurston 174
Cordelia the Crude (1926) Wallace Thurman 184
Smoke, Lilies and Jade (1926) Richard Bruce
Nugent 188
Wedding Day (1926) Gwendolyn B. Bennett 200
207
City Love (1927) EricWalrond 209
Lynching for Profit (1927) George S. Schuyler
Highball (1927) Claude McKay 220
Game (1927) Eugene Gordon 235
Masks (1927) Eloise Bibb Thompson 247
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253
Bathesda of Sinners Run (1928) Maude Irwin
Owens 255
He Must Think It Out (1928)
Florida Ruffin Ridley 267
Anthropoi (1928) John F. Matheus 275
285
Prologue to a Life (1929)
Dorothy West 287
CONTENTS
1930
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33
1931
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35
1932
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37
1933
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1934
39
40
41
1935
42
1936
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44
1937
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47
CONTENTS
297
Sanctuary (1930) NellaLarsen 299
Door-Stops (1930) May Miller 304
Cross Crossings Cautiously (1930)
Anita Scott Coleman 314
317
Why Adam Ate the Apple (1931) Mercedes Gilbert 319
The Needle's Point (1931) J. Saunders Redding 320
327
Cra2y Mary (1932) Claude McKay 329
His Last Day (1932) Chester Himes 334
347
A Summer Tragedy (1933)
ArnaBontemps
349
357
Barrel Staves (1934) ArnaBontemps 359
Why, You Reckon (1934) Langston Hughes 370
Spanish Blood (1934) Langston Hughes 375
383
John Archer's Nose (1935)
Rudolph Fisher 385
421
Mob Madness (1936) Marion Vera Cuthbert 423
Gesture (1936) Georgia Douglas Johnson 427
433
Pope Pius the Only (1937) Richard Bruce Nugent
Silt (1937) Richard Wright 439
The Return of a Modern Prodigal (1937)
Octavia B. Wynbush 444
435
IX
1938
48
1939
49
50
1940
51
52
455
Hate Is Nothing (1938)
MaritaBonner
457
473
The Whipping (1939) MaritaBonner 475
A Modern Fable (1939) Chester Himes 484
491
A Matter of Record (1940) TedPoston 493
Girl, Colored (1940) Marian Minus 495
Sources for Additional Short Stories
by the Authors 501
Award-Winning Short Fiction from Opportunity
and Crisis 507
Selected Resources for the Harlem Renaissance 511
A Selected Checklist of Common Issues, Topics,
and Plot Components 525
About the Authors 529
Author Index 549
Credits 551
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