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Zustand: Good. Walls, Frank (illustrator). Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Roffey, Maureen (illustrator). Revised. Binding is tight. Interior is clean. Hard to find dust jacket is not price clipped and looks fantastic in mylar. Jacket colors are vivid and unfaded. Top and bottom of flies mildly discolored. Pictorial boards are vivid and unfaded. Small bump on bottom of front board. Adorable illustrations truly bring this old children's rhyme to life. Unpaginated.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 250 pages. 6.00x0.57x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The acknowledgment and admiration of fiction by women of the Harlem Renaissance is growing rapidly. Their stories encompass unique premises and perceptions and, taken as a whole, they balance the historically male-dominated perspectives in Harlem Renaissance literature. Their captivating narratives reveal insights and perspectives unique to the women who experienced the Harlem Renaissance. Through their presence, perseverance, and talent, these women played a crucial role in the historical progress of Black women's literature.This volume-a combination of two 'Short-Take' anthologies, plus 8 bonus stories-presents the best short stories by distinguished women writers, from those who have earned more widespread attention to those who haven't yet but are just as deserving. This informed and comprehensive collection is a combination of the stories by women most admired during the Harlem Renaissance and those most studied since then.- 25 short stories by 25 distinguished writers.- Includes a list of all the short stories by women recognized in national Harlem Renaissance literary contests.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As a writer, editor, mentor, and diplomat, Jessie Redmon Fauset was an essential, unwavering, and unsung force of the Harlem Renaissance. This volume celebrates Fauset's exceptional and often overlooked talent as a writer with the first complete collection of her short fiction, poems, and personal essays published in Harlem Renaissance periodicals, anthologies, and literary journals. It includes all of the original illustrations!Jessie Redmon Fauset's varied and extensive body of literary art encompassed the entire era of the Harlem Renaissance-and beyond. She produced the most essays and novels of any African American woman of the time and was a prolific writer of short stories, essays, and poems for adults and children.From the astounding gamut of Jessie Fauset's writing, this is a collection of her most imaginative work. Her short stories are precursors to her four popular novels, addressing racial identity, self-esteem, gender restraints, class conflicts, and institutional racism. Her poetry is timeless. Her expressive first-person narratives offer insights into the life and times of an extraordinary writer and visionary.Fauset grew up in Philadelphia and was among the first Black women to graduate from Cornell. While teaching at the prestigious Dunbar High School, she contributed essays, stories, poems, and reviews to The Crisis, a prestigious African American periodical. At the invitation of W.E.B. DuBois, she become its Literary Editor. During her long and active tenure, Fauset fostered and published many Harlem Renaissance greats, including Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay. Fauset co-founded and edited The Brownies' Book, a magazine designed to entertain and empower African American children, and was one of its main contributors. In his memoir, Langston Hughes commends Fauset as one of the three 'midwives' of the Harlem Renaissance.