American Local Color Writing, 1880-1920 ed. Elizabeth Ammons & Valerie Rohy (Penguin Classics US, February 1998, 0-14-043688-X, $13.95, 432pp, tp, an)
Contents from publisher’s catalog.
- · Introduction · Elizabeth Ammons & Valerie Rohy · in
- · South
- · from Nights with Uncle Remus · Joel Chandler Harris · ss 1883
- · Dave’s Neckliss · Charles Chesnutt · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1889
- · The Sheriff’s Children · Charles Chesnutt · ss New York Independent November 7 1889
- · The Praline Woman · Alice Dunbar-Nelson · ss 1899
- · The Stones of the Village · Alice Dunbar-Nelson · ss 1910
- · The Story of an Hour · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue December 6 1894, as “The Dream of an Hour”
- · The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969; written in 1898.
- · The Dancin’ Party at Harrison’s Cove · Mary Noailles Murfree · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1878, as by Charles Egbert Craddock
- · Midwest
- · Scrambled Eggs · Gertrude Dorsey Brown · ss 1905
- · The Voice of the Rich Pudding · Gertrude Dorsey Brown · ss 1907
- · Up the Coolly · Hamlin Garland · ss 1893
- · Pontiac’s Lookout · Mary Hartwell Catherwood · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1894
- · from The Fus Fixico Letters · Alexander Lawrence Posey · ss 1903
- · from Mr. Dooley in Peace and War [Mr. Dooley] · Finley Peter Dunne · ss 1896
- · Hands · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Masses March 1916
- · Northeast
- · A New England Nun · Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · ss A New England Nun and Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Harper & Brothers, 1891
- · The Queen’s Twin · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss The Cornhill Magazine February 1899
- · The Foreigner · Sarah Orne Jewett · nv The Atlantic Monthly August 1900
- · The Apostate of Chego-Chegg · Abraham Cahan · ss The Century Magazine November 1899
- · Talma Gordon · Pauline Hopkins · ss Colored American Magazine 1900
- · Bro’r Abr’m Jimson’s Wedding · Pauline Hopkins · ss 1901
- · On Being Crazy · W. E. B. Du Bois · ss 1907
- · West
- · An Ingenue of the Sierras · Bret Harte · ss The Idler May 1893
- · Its Wavering Image · Sui Sin Far · ss Mrs. Spring Fragrance by Sui Sin Far, A. C. McClurg, 1912
- · The Wisdom of the New · Sui Sin Far · ss Mrs. Spring Fragrance by Sui Sin Far, A. C. McClurg, 1912
- · In a Far Country · Jack London · ss Overland Monthly June 1899
- · To the Man on Trail [The Malemute Kid] · Jack London · ss Overland Monthly January 1899
- · The Land of Little Rain · Mary Austin · ss The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin, Houghton Mifflin, 1903
- · The Soft-Hearted Sioux · Zitkala-Sä · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine March 1901
- · Iktomi and the Ducks · Zitkala-Sä · ss Old Indian Legends by Zitkála-Šá, Ginn & Co. Athenaeum Press, 1901
- · The Vine-Leaf · Maria Cristina Mena · ss The Century Magazine December 1914
- · Explanatory Notes · [uncredited] · ms (r)
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