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Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories from the Harlem Renaissance
Title:
Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories from the Harlem Renaissance
Uniform Title:
Short stories. Selections
ISBN:
9780062915795
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
xliii, 252 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents:
John Redding goes to sea -- The conversion of Sam -- A bit of our Harlem -- Drenched in light -- Spunk -- Magnolia flower -- Black death -- The bone of contention -- Muttsy -- Sweat -- Under the bridge -- 'Possum or pig? -- The Eatonville anthology -- Book of Harlem -- The book of Harlem -- The back room -- Monkey junk -- The country in the woman -- The gilded six-bits -- She rock -- The fire and the cloud.
Summary:
In 1925, Zora Neale Hurston was living in New York as a fledgling writer. This collection of stories, found in archives after her death, reveal African American folk culture in Harlem in the 1920s. This book includes eight of Hurston's "lost" Harlem gems.
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