Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short StoriesClarence Major An anthology of twentieth-century African-American short stories written by Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, and more than fifty others, with biographical notes. |
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... legs were moving and he knew they would carry him where they needed to go and he knew the legs belonged to him but he could not feel them , he had been sitting too long thinking on nothing for too long and he felt the sweat running on ...
... legs were moving and he knew they would carry him where they needed to go and he knew the legs belonged to him but he could not feel them , he had been sitting too long thinking on nothing for too long and he felt the sweat running on ...
Page 431
... legs . Kiswana saw immediately how it should have been done . Her celluloid poise clashed loudly against her mother's quiet dignity , and she quickly uncrossed her legs . Mrs. Browne turned her head toward the window and pretended not ...
... legs . Kiswana saw immediately how it should have been done . Her celluloid poise clashed loudly against her mother's quiet dignity , and she quickly uncrossed her legs . Mrs. Browne turned her head toward the window and pretended not ...
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... legs all through service . Even groaned a couple of times . Why did I think she would come there and act right ? Slacks . No hat like the grandmothers and viewers , and groaning all the while . When we stood for hymns she kept her mouth ...
... legs all through service . Even groaned a couple of times . Why did I think she would come there and act right ? Slacks . No hat like the grandmothers and viewers , and groaning all the while . When we stood for hymns she kept her mouth ...
Contents
Paul Laurence Dunbar The Ingrate 1900 | 12 |
Jean Toomer Esther 1923 | 25 |
Claude McKay Truant 1932 | 39 |
Copyright | |
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