Bibliograph

Ancestral house, the Black short story in the Americas and Europe, edited by Charles H. Rowell

Type

Label

Ancestral house, the Black short story in the Americas and Europe, edited by Charles H. Rowell

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxv-xxvi)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Ancestral house

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

32349030

Responsibility statement

edited by Charles H. Rowell

Sub title

the Black short story in the Americas and Europe

Summary

Seventy stories by Black writers from around the world, half from the U.S. In William Melvin Kelley's My Next-to-Last Hit, a Harvard-educated killer engages in a philosophical discussion with his victim before shooting him, Pauline Melville's I Do Not Take Messages from Dead People is on the fate of a radio reporter in Guyana who insults the vice-president, and Ernest J. Gaines' Three Men is on jail as a rite-of-passage for Blacks in becoming men

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