Ancestral House

by Rowell, Charles H.; Wideman, John Edgar

• ISBN13: 9780813320298
• ISBN10: 0813320291
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-10-01
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Summary

Presents seventy short stories by Black authors in the United States, Europe, and the Americas

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
	p. xxvi
	p. xxvii
Acknowledgments	p. xxix
Absolution	p. 1
My Singular Irene	p. 8
Willie Bea And Jaybird	p. 14
The Organizer's Wife	p. 21
Words	p. 34
Miss Askew On Ice	p. 36
I Used To Like The Dallas Cowboys	p. 50
The Evening And The Morning And The Night	p. 59
Civilization	p. 78
They Called Her Aurora (The Love Of Donna Summer)	p. 84
Cherry Bomb	p. 87
Griff	p. 95
Columba	p. 110
The Visit	p. 117
Night Thoughts	p. 125
Avenues	p. 129
Tapestry	p. 131
Rosena On The Mountai N	p. 135
Under The Rose The Eldest	p. 151
Sweat, Sugar, And Blood	p. 156
Glossary	p. 163
Ark Of Bones	p. 164
A Letter	p. 174
The Miracle	p. 179
Randall Randall	p. 188
This Man And Me	p. 199
Men	p. 205
Accidents	p. 227
By Love Possessed	p. 241
She Wakes	p. 246
Kanaima	p. 256
Presence	p. 262
Circle Of Shade	p. 265
AlēThia	p. 274
The First Day	p. 281
The Fisherman's House	p. 285
Transits	p. 292
My Next-To-Last Hit	p. 300
The Origin Of Whales	p. 309
Song Of Roland	p. 317
The Blue Room	p. 324
Marriage Bones	p. 328
Shoemaker Arnol D	p. 334
City Flesh And Country Manners	p. 340
Some Get Wasted	p. 346
Specimen	p. 354
The More I Like Flies	p. 362
Quilting On The Rebound	p. 374
Black Pieces	p. 385
The Story Of A Scar	p. 392
I Do Not Take Messages From Dead People	p. 402
A Happy Story	p. 413
Recitatif	p. 422
A Play	p. 437
Voodoo	p. 448
Bewitched	p. 452
The Devil's Maw	p. 456
Juby's Morning	p. 463
Stop Frame	p. 471
Yawetir	p. 480
Enough Rides	p. 489
Keep A Secret	p. 498
The Inheritance Of My Father: A Story For Listening	p. 503
The Little White Girl	p. 515
This City Of Men	p. 524
You Think I Mad, Miss?	p. 541
Her Head A Village	p. 546
Sonatina For Two Drums	p. 551
Kembé (Chronicle-Gospel For A Certain December 19Th)	p. 557
Nineteen Fifty-5	p. 562
Fever	p. 573
About the Book and Editor	p. 593
Notes on Contributors	p. 595
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