Books Which Document the Development of African American Short Fiction

The following are some of the many books in the University Library at USC on short fiction by African Americans:


Ammons, Elizabeth. Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900-1920. New York: Oxford UP, 1991.
Doheny Stacks; Leavey PS647.A35S56

Bruck, Peter. The Black American Short Story in the Twentieth Century: A Collection of Critical Essays. Amsterdam: Gruner, 1977.
Doheny Stacks; Special Collections PS153.N5B54

Clarke, John H. Black American Short Stories: One Hundred Years of the Best. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.
Doheny Stacks PS647.A35B56 1993

Davis, Thadious, and Trudier Harris. Afro-American Fiction Writers After 1955. Detroit: Gale, 1984.
Reference Center PS221.D5 v.33

Kanwar, Asha. The Unforgetting Heart: An Anthology of Short Stories by African American Women, 1859-1993. San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 1993.
Doheny Stacks PS647.A35U53

Knopf, Marcy, ed. The Sleeper Awake: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1993.
Doheny Stacks; Leavey PS647.A35S58 1993

Major, Clarence. Calling the Wind: Twentieth-Century African American Short Stories. New York: HarperPerennial, 1992.
Doheny Stacks PS647.A35C35 1992

Washington, Mary. Black-Eyed Susans: Midnight Birds; Stories by and about Black Women. New York: Doubleday, 1990.
Special Collections PS647.A35B57 1990