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Title The Sleeper wakes : Harlem renaissance stories by women / edited and with an introduction by Marcy Knopf ; foreword by Nellie Y. McKay.

Imprint New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1993.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.0108896 Sl25    ---  Axe Inventory 2024
Description xxxix, 277 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-277).
Contents Sleeper wakes ; Double trouble ; Mary Elizabeth / Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Wedding day / Gwendolyn Bennett -- Free / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Funeral ; Typewriter ; Prologue to a life / Dorothy West -- One boy's story ; Drab rambles ; Nothing new / Marita Bonner -- Closing door / Angelina Weld Grimke -- Bathesda of Sinners Run / Maude Irwin Owens -- Foolish and the wise: Sallie Runner is introduced to Socrates and Sanctum 777 N.S.D.C.O.U. meets Cleopatra / Leila Amos Pendleton -- Cross crossings cautiously ; Three dogs and a rabbit / Anita Scott Coleman -- Blue Aloes ; To a wild rose / Ottie Beatrice Graham -- His great career ; Summer session / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Masks ; Mademoiselle Tasie / Eloise Bibb Thompson -- John Redding goes to sea ; Bone of contention / Zora Neale Hurston -- Sanctuary ; Wrong man ; Freedom / Nella Larsen.
Subject American fiction -- African American authors.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
African American women -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
American fiction -- New York (State) -- New York.
American fiction -- Women authors.
Harlem Renaissance.
Short stories, American.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Added Author Knopf, Marcy, 1969-
ISBN 0813519454 (pbk.) : $13.95
0813519446 (cloth) : $40.00

 
    
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