Note: The books listed above should be included as an essential part
of the bibliography to follow.
Primary Sources
: Collections and Anthologies
Brawley, Benjamin, ed.
The Best Short Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar
. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1938.
Cable, George Washington.
Old Creole Days
. New York: Heritage Press Edition, 1943.
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Strange True Stories of Louisiana
. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1889.
Chesnutt, Charles W.
The Conjure Woman
. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969.
Day, A. Grove, ed.
The Greatest American Short Stories
. St. Louis: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1953.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence.
Folks from Dixie
. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1898.
_______. In Old Plantation Days. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1903.
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The Strength of Gideon
. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1909.
Page, Thomas Nelson.
Bred in the Bone
. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904.
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In Ole Virginia
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or Marse Chan and Other Stories
. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890.
Secondary Sources
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Baker, Houston A., Jr.
Singers at Daybreak: Studies in Black American Literature
. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1974.
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Berthoff, Warner.
The Ferment of Realism in American Literature, 1884Ð1919
. New York: The Free Press, 1965.
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Bigsby, C. W. E., ed.
The Black American Writer: Volume I: Fiction
. Deland, Fla: Everett/Edwards, Inc., 1969.
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Bone, Robert.
The Negro Novel in America
. rev. ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965.
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Gloster, Hugh M.
Negro Voices in American Fiction
. New York: Russell and Russell, Inc., 1965.
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Gross, Seymour L. and John Edward Hardy, eds.
Images of the Negro in American Literature
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.
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Harlow, Alvin Fay.
Joel Chandler Harris
,
Plantation Story Teller
. New York: J. Messner, Inc., 1941.
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Loggins, Vernon.
The Negro Author: His Development in America to 1900
. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1964.
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Pattee, Fred Lewis.
The Development of the American Short Story: An Historical Survey
. New York: Harper, 1923.
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Render, Sylvia Lyons.
The Short Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt
. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1974.
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Simpson, Claude.
The Local Colorists: American Short Stories, 1857Ð1900
. New York: Harper, 1960.
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Tebbel, John.
The American Magazine: A Compact History
. New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1969.
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Voss, Arthur.
The American Short Story: A Critical Study
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975.