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Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers 1967 to the Present

Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers 1967 to the Present

Naylor, Gloria

Paperback

Series: Short Story, Book 2

Fiction AnthologiesClassic FictionGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 0316599239
ISBN13: 9780316599238
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: Feb 1 1997
Pages: 592
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.53 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
The sequel to Langston Hughes's 1967 classic anthology The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, Gloria Naylor's Children of the Night is a brilliant collection of short stories by black writers including Maya Angelou, Ralph Ellison, and Edward P. Jones (Booklist).

In 1969, Langston Hughes edited The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, the classic compendium of African-American short fiction from 1899 to 1967. A quarter of a century later, Gloria Naylor compiled an encore volume, Children of the Night, gathering together the most gifted black writers of the later twentieth century -- from 1967 to its publication in 1997 -- in a rich and varied collection of stories.

The portrait that emerges of the African-American experience in the post-Civil Rights era is stirring, compelling, sometimes disturbing, and certainly provocative. Arranged in in four thematic section -- Remembering, Affirming, Revealing the Self Divided, and Moving On -- the thirty-seven stories included brilliantly capture the many facets of the black experience in America.

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