In 1969, Little, Brown and Company published The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, edited by Langston Hughes - the classic compendium of African...
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Jul 18, 2011
J
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(FROM JACKET)...Gathering together the most gifted black writers of our time-from 1967 to the present-Naylor has assembled a rich and varied collection of stories. The portrait that emerges of the African-American experience in the post-Civlil Rights era is stirring, compelling, and sometimes disturbing, and certainly provocative. Naylor has arranged the stories thematically so the reader focuse on a particular subject-slavery, for example, or the family. In the hands of different writers, these
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Aug 25, 2011
Susan
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An amazing anthology of work from Black Writers from 1967 to now...1995.
I've long admired Naylor and so thought it might be a good read. She's a fine editor, I think.
Divided into four parts - "Remembering," "Affirming," "Revealing the Self Divided," and "Moving On," this 566 page tome if full of work to consider well.
Slavery, memoirs, family stories, "them" and "us," drugs, cross ties between cultures, despair and hope, More...
I've long admired Naylor and so thought it might be a good read. She's a fine editor, I think.
Divided into four parts - "Remembering," "Affirming," "Revealing the Self Divided," and "Moving On," this 566 page tome if full of work to consider well.
Slavery, memoirs, family stories, "them" and "us," drugs, cross ties between cultures, despair and hope, More...
Dec 17, 2009
Yared
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I loved most of the stories in this book. It sports amazing talents by many writers.
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