The Sleeper Wakes

by Knopf-newman, Marcy

• ISBN13: 9780813519456
• ISBN10: 0813519454
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-06-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

This significant collection is the first definitive edition of Harlem Renaissance stories by women. These 27 stories have been virtually unavailable to readers until now. Contributors include Gwendolyn Bennett, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimke, Zora Neale Huston, Nella Larsen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Ann Petry, and Dorothy West.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Sleeper Wakes	p. 1
Double Trouble	p. 26
Mary Elizabeth	p. 40
Wedding Day	p. 48
Free	p. 55
Funeral	p. 60
The Typewriter	p. 76
Prologue to a Life	p. 84
One Boy's Story	p. 95
Drab Rambles	p. 107
Nothing New	p. 116
The Closing Door	p. 124
Bathesda of Sinners Run	p. 146
The Foolish and the Wise: Sallie Runner Is Introduced to Socrates and Sanctum 777 N.S.D.C.O.U. Meets Cleopatra	p. 159
Cross Crossings Cautiously	p. 170
Three Dogs and a Rabbit	p. 173
Blue Aloes	p. 182
To a Wild Rose	p. 195
His Great Career	p. 201
Summer Session	p. 204
Masks	p. 210
Mademoiselle 'Tasie	p. 217
John Redding Goes to Sea	p. 227
The Bone of Contention	p. 240
Sanctuary	p. 250
The Wrong Man	p. 256
Freedom	p. 262
Biographical Notes	p. 267
Bibliography	p. 273
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