the collected stories of George Wylie Henderson, an Alabama writer of the Harlem Renaissance /
edited and with an introduction by David G. Nicholls
Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
c2006
125 p. ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 125)
Sinner man's wedding -- Whistlin' slim -- Dance of death -- "Thy name is woman" -- Without tears -- Midnight in Harlem -- Day of judgment -- "Man in de Moon" -- A brownskin's revenge -- Redcap -- Harlem calling -- "Mister Simmons--Good Lord!" -- Waitress -- Time for a dance -- Home style: an episode -- Red Devil over Harlem -- Only Mary and me
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"Harlem Calling collects carefully crafted short stories about life in Alabama, Memphis, and New York City that dramatize the profound ambivalence many blacks felt about their participation in the Great Migration. George Wylie Henderson's tales of the rural South are sometimes nostalgic but also present the hard work and violence of everyday life there, and his stories set in Harlem present the glamour of urban life, while they also are concerned with poverty and social mores."--BOOK JACKET.