Comedy: American Style
American Style
Publication Year: 2010
Published by: Rutgers University Press
Contents
Acknowledgments
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pp. ix-
Chronology
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pp. xi-xiii
Introduction
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pp. xv-xl
Jessie Fauset’s role as the most influential literary editor of the Harlem Renaissance has long overshadowed serious consideration of her fiction. Once categorized as the “midwife” who introduced the world to the poet Langston Hughes, Fauset was frequently relegated to the so-called rear guard of the New Negro movement.1 Fortunately, black feminist scholars began to recast the writing of female authors that had been excluded from or marginalized within...
A Note on the Text
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pp. xli-
Comedy: American Style
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pp. 1-235
ONCE, before Olivia had attained to that self-absorption and single-mindedness which were to stamp her later life, she had remarked a text in Sunday School which had given her considerable pause. It read: “Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth.”1 She had gazed at it with unimaginative and wholly preoccupied concentration, struck for the moment with the solemnity and awfulness inhering in the words. After a few moments’ reflection she came to the...
Selected Essays
Yarrow Revisited
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pp. 239-243
THIS is not the Paris of my student days nor even the Paris of the second Pan-African Congress held three years ago. I seem to glimpse in the memories of those visits an enchanted city of gay streets, blue skies, of romantically historic monuments, a playground, a court of justice of the world. Every one was possessed of a fine courtesy; attendants were kind and generous, though even then a little too conscious, for an American...
Nostalgia
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pp. 244-251
ON those rare mornings when I have a moment to spare I go into the little fruit shop on Seventh Avenue and buy a hard, sweet, red apple and a small rusty orange. The foreign proprietor knows me now and greets me with as much eagerness as though I were about to buy out all his stock. There are bunches of ruddy grapes hanging up on a piece of twine; the...
This Way to the Flea Market
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pp. 252-256
MY friend said: “I think you ought to visit the Flea Market.” I looked at her with amazement and some distaste for I was still smarting under the memory of my encounter with one of the pests during my first few days in Paris. Presently she explained. Just outside of one of the gates of Paris—for Paris being a fortified city has several gates—there is held every Sunday from nine until four...
Selected Poems
Oriflamme
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pp. 259-
Touch�
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pp. 260-
Rencontre
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pp. 261-
La Vie C’est La Vie
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pp. 262-
Explanatory Notes
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pp. 263-270
E-ISBN-13: 9780813548326
E-ISBN-10: 0813548322
Print-ISBN-13: 9780813546315
Page Count: 316
Publication Year: 2010
Series Title: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas
Series Editor Byline: Amritjit Singh, Carla L. Peterson, C. Lok Chua
