Ebony Rising SHORT FICTION OF THE GREATER HARLEM RENAISSANCE ERA Edited by Craig Gable SUB Gottingen 7 219 090 181 2006 A 10435 Indiana University Press BLOOMINGTON AND INDIANAPOLIS CONTENTS Preface Craig Gable xi Acknowledgments xix Introduction Darryl Dickson-Carr xxi 1912-1919 1 1 Hope Deferred (1914) Alice Dunbar-Nelson 5 2 The Closing Door (1919) Angelina Weld Grimke 12 3 Mary Elizabeth (1919) Jessie Redmon Fauset 31 1920 39 4 The Comet (1920) W.E.B.DuBois 41 1921 53 5 The Foolish and the Wise: Sallie Runner Is Introduced to Socrates (1921) Leila Amos Pendleton 55 1922 61 6 The Foolish and the Wise: Sanctum 777 N. S. D. C. O. U. Meets Cleopatra (1922) Leila Amos Pendleton 63 7 Becky (1922) JeanToomer 68 1923 71 8 Esther (1923) JeanToomer 73 1924 79 9 Vignettes of the Dusk (1924) EricWalrond 81 10 Blue Aloes (1924) Ottie B.Graham 85 11 Slackened Caprice (1924) Ottie B.Graham 96 VII 1925 103 12 The City of Refuge (1925) Rudolph Fisher 105 13 The Golden Penknife (1925) S. Miller Johnson 118 14 Mademoiselle Tasie (1925) Eloise Bibb Thompson 136 1926 145 15 Grist in the Mill (1926) Wallace Thurman 147 16 Hannah Byde (1926) Dorothy West 155 17 Muttsy(1926) Zora Neale Hurston 162 18 The Eatonville Anthology (1926) Zora Neale Hurston 174 19 Cordelia the Crude (1926) Wallace Thurman 184 20 Smoke, Lilies and Jade (1926) Richard Bruce Nugent 188 21 Wedding Day (1926) Gwendolyn B. Bennett 200 1927 207 22 City Love (1927) EricWalrond 209 23 Lynching for Profit (1927) George S. Schuyler 216 24 Highball (1927) Claude McKay 220 25 Game (1927) Eugene Gordon 235 26 Masks (1927) Eloise Bibb Thompson 247 1928 253 27 Bathesda of Sinners Run (1928) Maude Irwin Owens 255 28 He Must Think It Out (1928) Florida Ruffin Ridley 267 29 Anthropoi (1928) John F. Matheus 275 1929 285 30 Prologue to a Life (1929) Dorothy West 287 VIII CONTENTS 1930 297 31 Sanctuary (1930) NellaLarsen 299 32 Door-Stops (1930) May Miller 304 33 Cross Crossings Cautiously (1930) Anita Scott Coleman 314 1931 317 34 Why Adam Ate the Apple (1931) Mercedes Gilbert 319 35 The Needle's Point (1931) J. Saunders Redding 320 1932 327 36 Cra2y Mary (1932) Claude McKay 329 37 His Last Day (1932) Chester Himes 334 1933 347 38 A Summer Tragedy (1933) ArnaBontemps 349 1934 357 39 Barrel Staves (1934) ArnaBontemps 359 40 Why, You Reckon (1934) Langston Hughes 370 41 Spanish Blood (1934) Langston Hughes 375 1935 383 42 John Archer's Nose (1935) Rudolph Fisher 385 1936 421 43 Mob Madness (1936) Marion Vera Cuthbert 423 44 Gesture (1936) Georgia Douglas Johnson 427 1937 433 45 Pope Pius the Only (1937) Richard Bruce Nugent 435 46 Silt (1937) Richard Wright 439 47 The Return of a Modern Prodigal (1937) Octavia B. Wynbush 444 CONTENTS IX 1938 455 48 Hate Is Nothing (1938) MaritaBonner 457 1939 473 49 The Whipping (1939) MaritaBonner 475 50 A Modern Fable (1939) Chester Himes 484 1940 491 51 A Matter of Record (1940) TedPoston 493 52 Girl, Colored (1940) Marian Minus 495 Sources for Additional Short Stories by the Authors 501 Award-Winning Short Fiction from Opportunity and Crisis 507 Selected Resources for the Harlem Renaissance 511 A Selected Checklist of Common Issues, Topics, and Plot Components 525 About the Authors 529 Author Index 549 Credits 551 CONTENTS.