Ancestral House: The Black Short Story In The Americas And Europe

by Charles Rowell

Overview

An anthology of 70 short stories by writers of African descent. The authors are from Europe and the Americas (about half of them from the United States), and they include Alice Walker, Hal Bennett and John Edgar Wideman.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429720291
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/18/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	634
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Charles H. Rowell is professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and editor of Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters.

Table of Contents

Absolution, My Singular Irene, Willie Bea and Jaybird, The Organizer's Wife, Words, Miss Askew on Ice, I Used to Like the Dallas Cowboys, The Evening and the Morning and the Night, Civilization, They Called Her Aurora (The Love of Donna Summer), Cherry Bomb, Griff, Columba, The Visit, Night Thoughts, Avenues, Tapestry, Rosena on the Mountain, Under the Rose, Sweat, Sugar, and Blood, Ark of Bones, A Letter, The Miracle Randall Randall, This Man and Me, Three Men, Accidents, By Love Possessed, She Wakes, Kanaima, Presence, Circle of Shade, Alethia, The First Day, The Fisherman's House, Transits, My Next-to-Last Hit, The Origin of Whales, Song of Roland, The Blue Room, Marriage Bones, Shoemaker Arnold, City Flesh and Country Manners, Some Get Wasted, Specimen, The More I Like Flies, Quilting on the Rebound, Black Pieces, The Story of a Scar, I Do Not Take Messages from Dead People, A Happy Story, Recitatif, A Play, Voodoo, Bewitched, The Devil's Maw, Juby's Morning, Stop Frame, Yawetir, Enough Rides, Keep a Secret, The Inheritance of My Father: A Story for Listening, The Little White Girl, This City of Men, You Think I Mad, Miss? Her Head a Village, Sonatina for Two Drums, Kem be, Nineteen Fifty-Five, Fever

Editorial Reviews

An anthology of 70 uncut short stories collecting the work of writers from the African Diaspora. The authors, representing an immense range of intellectual concerns and cultural perspectives, include Jose Alcantara Almanzar of the Dominican Republic, Luiz Silva "Cuti" of Brazil, Rene Depestre of Haiti, and Astrid Roemer of Surinam/Holland as well as many well-known and less well-known US authors including Amiri Baraka, Rita Dove, John Edgar Wideman, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Charles Rowell, founder and editor of "Callaloo: A Journal of Afro-American and African Arts and Letters," has chosen wonderful, unique stories for this anthology. Represented authors come from all over the world, and their subject matter encompasses the full spectrum of human experience. Most stories are brief, but the reader will want to savor each one. In "My Singular Irene," JoseAlcantra Almanzar of the Dominican Republic reflects on the events that lead up to the narrator's wife's departure. "Willie Bea and Jaybird," by American Tina McElroy Ansa, depicts a woman who finds out that her husband is having an affair with her best friend. And in "Randall Randall," by American Percival Everett, a man unleashes a series of nightmarish events when he moves a neighbor's car without permission. Readers will enjoy this collection of passionate, powerful, quirky, and enchanting tales, which includes works by Toni Morrison and Walter Mosley as well as lesser-known talents.

Kathleen Hughes