A Notebook on The Geographies of African American Short Stories

By Kenton Rambsy 

My book The Geographies of African American Short Stories was published by the University of Mississippi Press in 2022. This month, I'm producing a series of entries about aspects of the book.

Entries:

Day 1: A brief description of The Geographies of African American Short Stories

Day 2: Black Short Fiction & Literary Data Work 

Day 3: Different Types of Anthologies

Day 4: Tracing Black Short Stories in 100 Anthologies 

Day 5: Locating the Big 7 

Day 6: Langston Hughes as a Short Story Writer 

Day 7: Recurring stories and geographic locales

Day 8: Signature Short Stories of Black Writers

Day 9: Geotagging + Locations

Day 10: Geo-Tagging + Characters 

Day 11: Writing the South

Day 12: The Paradox of Homegrown Outsiders

Day 13: New York Cityscapes 

Day 14: Edward P. Jones’s Homegrown Characters

Day 15: Cultural Geo-tagging Charles Chesnutt’s short fiction

Day 16: Cultural Geo-tagging Zora Neale Hurston’s short stories 

Day 17: Cultural Geo-tagging Richard Wright’s short stories

Day 18: Cultural Geo-tagging Ralph Ellison’s short stories

Day 19: Cultural Geo-tagging James Baldwin’s short stories 

Day 20: Cultural Geo-tagging Toni Cade Bambara’s short stories 

Day 21: Cultural Geo-tagging Alice Walker’s short stories

Day 22: Cultural Geo-Tagging Edward P. Jones’s Short Stories

Day 23: Connecting Lost in the City & All Aunt Hagar’s Children 

Day 24: Children in Edward P. Jones’s Short Fiction

Day 25: Women in Edward P. Jones’s Short Fiction

Day 26: Men in Edward P. Jones’s Short Fiction

Day 27: Pedestrians in Edward P. Jones’s Short Fiction 

Day 28: Summaries of Short Stories By the Big 7

Day 29: Summaries of Short Stories by Edward P. Jones

Day 30: Three Notable Settings in Black Short Fiction

Day 31: Visualizing Geography, Settings, and Characters in Short Stories by the Big 7