African American Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
Introduction
Although it may be viewed as a modern genre, short fiction subsides into the mists of history in the form of fairy tales, anecdotes, myths, and historical legend. The form was known to the ancient Greeks. Actually, tales of Alf layla wa-layla (fifteenth century; The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, 1706-1708) and Geoffrey Chaucer’s tales are classified as short stories. Besides the obvious difference in length, short fiction differs from longer fiction by focusing upon a single event occurring in one or two scenes and by including fewer characters....
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See Also:
African American Drama (Topical Overview--Drama)African American Identity in Literature (Topical Overview--Identities and Issues)African American Long Fiction (Topical Overview--Long Fiction)African American Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry)Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
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