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The sleeper wakes : Harlem renaissance stories by women / edited and with an introduction by Marcy Knopf ; foreword by Nellie Y. McKay.

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1993.

xxxix, 277 p. ; 24 cm.

American fiction -- African American authors.

African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.

American fiction -- New York (State) -- New York.

American fiction -- Women authors.

African American women authors.

Harlem Renaissance.

Knopf, Marcy, 1969-

Includes bibliographical references.

Sleeper wakes ; Double trouble ; Mary Elizabeth / Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Wedding day / Gwendolyn Bennett -- Free / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Funeral ; Typewriter ; Prologue to a life / Dorothy West -- One boy's story ; Drab rambles ; Nothing new / Marita Bonner -- Closing door / Angelina Weld Grimke -- Bathesda of Sinners Run / Maude Irwin Owens -- Foolish and the wise: Sallie Runner is introduced to Socrates and Sanctum 777 N.S.D.C.O.U. meets Cleopatra / Leila Amos Pendleton -- Cross crossings cautiously ; Three dogs and a rabbit / Anita Scott Coleman -- Blue Aloes ; To a wild rose / Ottie Beatrice Graham -- His great career ; Summer session / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Masks ; Mademoiselle Tasie / Eloise Bibb Thompson -- John Redding goes to sea ; Bone of contention / Zora Neale Hurston -- Sanctuary ; Wrong man ; Freedom / Nella Larsen.

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0813519454 (pbk.)

0813519446

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