Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories from the Harlem Renaissance

Summary: In 1925, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston - the sole black student at the college - began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. This is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston's "lost" Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives.

Record details

ISBN: 9780062915795
Physical Description: print
regular print
xliii, 252 pages ; 22 cm.
Publisher: New York, New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

John Redding goes to sea -- The conversion of Sam -- A bit of our Harlem -- Drenched in light -- Spunk -- Magnolia flower -- Black death -- The bone of contention -- Muttsy -- Sweat -- Under the bridge -- 'Possum or pig? -- The Eatonville anthology -- Book of Harlem -- The book of Harlem -- The back room -- Monkey junk -- The country in the woman -- The gilded six-bits -- She rock -- The fire and the cloud.