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 Click for larger image "So, why Anita Scott Coleman? The answer is simple. . . . Because she lived and wrote and described life far away from Harlem and other centers of African American population, reminding us that the African American experience is not confined to Harlem or Chicago or the South, but that it touches all parts of America." —Cary D. Wintz, from the foreword Coming soon: online ordering! In the meantime, please call 800.832.4042 or 806.742.2982 to order. |
Unfinished Masterpiece The Harlem Renaissance Fiction of Anita Scott Coleman Edited by Laurie Champion and Bruce A. Glasrud Though Anita Scott Coleman was born in Mexico and reared in New Mexico, her stories appeared frequently in The Crisis and other leading journals of the Harlem Renaissance. Reflecting and illuminating the movement’s major themes, her often award-winning stories, delicate and understated, offer subtle commentary on the status of black women, their role in black society, and the position of African Americans in an overwhelmingly white society.As a young woman in New Mexico, Anita Scott graduated from New Mexico Teachers College and enjoyed a brief teaching career until she married. Later she moved to California, where despite her distance from Harlem she wrote her last nine published stories, polished examples of the Renaissance’s finest short fiction, including "Unfinished Masterpieces." As one by one the journals of the Harlem Renaissance ceased publication, Coleman’s career itself remained regrettably unfinished. By 1960, when she died at age seventy, the literary legacy of this masterful southwestern storyteller was forgotten. What Champion and Glasrud have recovered in this collection is more than Coleman’s complete collected short fiction. It is a road map of African American life in the Southwest and West during the movement’s glory days, etching not only indelible glimpses of character and culture but also the farthest reaching evidence of the Harlem Renaissance’s success in sharing ideals and goals across a nation. Laurie Champion is professor of English at San Diego State University, where she focuses on the intersection of race, class, and gender in twentieth-century American literature. She has edited and coedited eight other books and has published reviews and essays in American Literature, Southern Quarterly, Southern Literary Journal, Studies in Short Fiction, and Short Story.Bruce A. Glasrud is retired dean of arts and sciences at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas. His numerous works include The African American West: A Century of Short Stories and The African American Experience in Texas: An Anthology. |
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