Research Catalog

Title

The African American West : a century of short stories / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud & Laurie Champion.

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Glasrud, Bruce A.
• Champion, Laurie

Description

xi, 463 pages; 24 cm

Summary

A collection of stories written by African-American authors about the American West over the course of the twentieth century.

Alternative Title

• Ingrate.
• Brief spell by the river.
• Adventure in the Big Horn Mountains; or, the trials and tribulations of a recruit.
• Averted strike.
• Little grey house.
• Gun.
• Coming of the hoodlum.
• Flashlight.
• Friday night shift at the taco house blues (wah-wah)
• Trip back from Whidbey.
• Kind of light that shines on Texas.

Subject

• African Americans > Fiction
• Short stories, American
• American fiction > African American authors
• Western stories
• African Americans
• American fiction > African American authors
• Manners and customs
• Short stories, American
• Western stories
• Schwarze
• Anthologie
• Kurzgeschichte
• Nouvelles américaines > Auteurs noirs américains
• Écrivains noirs américains > Nouvelles
• Westerns (littérature)
• États-Unis (ouest) > 1848-1950 > Moeurs et coutumes > Nouvelles
• États-Unis (ouest) > 20e siècle > Moeurs et coutumes > Nouvelles
• West (U.S.) > Social life and customs > Fiction
• West United States
• USA > Weststaaten
• Schwärze

Genre/Form

• Western stories.
• short stories.
• Fiction
• Short stories
• Western fiction
• Western fiction.
• Short stories.
• Nouvelles.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-460).

Contents

• Turn of the century: establishing the tradition. The ingrate / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- A brief spell by the river / Colleen McElroy -- An adventure in the Big Horn Mountains; or, The trials and tribulations of a recruit / Eugene P. Frierson -- The averted strike / Charles W. Chesnutt -- As the Lord lives, He is one of our mother's children / Pauline E. Hopkins -- Meanwhile ..., 1920s and 1930s. Jesus Christ in Texas / W.E.B. DuBois -- Jim Crow in Texas / William Pickens -- The little grey house / Anita Scott Coleman -- Children of chance / Julian Elihu Bagley -- Let the church roll on / Nick Aaron Ford -- Why I returned / Arna Bontemps -- No fools, no fun / March Lacy -- The gun / Langston Hughes -- Grazing in good pastures / Margaret Williams -- Then confront World War II and aftermath. Mister Toussan / Ralph Ellison -- Health card / Frank Yerby -- Stop, thief! / John Wesley Groves IV -- Lunching at the Ritzmore / Chester Himes -- God bless America / John O. Killens -- Keys to the city / Malvin Wald -- We too: freedom and civil rights. Son in the afternoon / John A. Williams -- Direct action / Mike Thelwell -- The coming of the hoodlum / Johnie Scott -- Ticket to freedom / John R. Posey -- Judah's a two-way street running out / Jack Burris -- Water seeks its own level / Maxine Clair -- The flashlight / Eldridge Cleaver -- Support your local police / Ed Bullins.
• Women need apply here. Ridin' the moon in Texas / Ntozake Shange -- Young Reverend Zelma Lee Moses / Joyce Carol Thomas -- Tell me Moore / Aya de Leon -- Quilting on the rebound / Terry McMillan -- Damon and Vandalia / Rita Dove -- Tenderhead / Harryette Mullen -- The Friday night shift at the taco house blues (wah-wah) / Wanda Coleman -- Emerald City: Third & Pike / Charlotte Watson Sherman -- And it's called progress??? Elbow room / James Alan McPherson -- Long distances / Jewell Parker Rhodes -- Now is the time / Cecil M. Brown -- Cry about a nickel / Percival Everett -- Surfiction / John Edgar Wideman -- The trip back from Whidbey / William Henry Lewis -- Wonderful teen / Carolyn Ferrell -- The kind of light that shines on Texas / Reginald McKnight -- Equal opportunity / Walter Mosley -- Amen / Sunny Nash.

ISBN

• 0870815598
• 9780870815591

LCCN

99058822

OCLC

• ocm42935693
• 42935693
• SCSB-8949269

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library