Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Black American Short Fiction in the 20th Century 1
5. Charles Waddell Chesnutt the Sheriff's Children (1889) 21
6. Paul Laurence Dunbar The Scapegoat (1904) 39
7. Jean Toomer FERN (1922) 53
8. Langston Hughes The BlUes i'm Playing (1934) 71
9. Chester Himes A Nigger (1937) 85
10. Richard Wright Fire and Cloud (1938) 99
11. Ralph Ellison King of the Bingo Game (1944) 111
12. William Melvin Kelley the Poker Party (1961) 129
13. John A. Williams Son in the Afternoon (1962) 141
14. Ernest J. Gaines a Long Day in November (1963) 157
15. James Baldwin Going to Meet the MaN (1965) 171
16. Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) The Alternative (1965) 187
17. Selected Bibliography 205
18. Contributors 209