African Diasporic Short Fiction | Charles H. Rowell (essay date 1995)
Charles H. Rowell (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: Rowell, Charles H. Introduction to Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and Europe, edited by Charles H. Rowell, pp. xv-xxviii. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1995.
[In the following introduction, excerpted from a short story anthology by writers of African descent, Rowell reflects on the difficulty in choosing a title for this collection, noting that finding common ground across the numerous authors featured, as well as attempting to define the notion of the African diaspora in a way that would reflect the many nationalities represented in this collection, were tasks he did not anticipate until he began work on the project.]
Naming or creating titles has never been—and I say so politely—a problem for me. In fact, I have always considered the process fun, a delightful self-test of poetic skills. But giving this anthology a title proved for me to be a very serious problem....
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