Black Short Story Findings

By Kenton Rambsy

The Black Short Story Findings project documents the annotation and analysis of more than 200 Black short stories, focusing on dialogue, geography, and character structure. Through the Mellon-supported Data Rangers Literary Fellowship, we combine collaborative close reading with structured data collection to generate findings about narrative design while making visible the labor and infrastructure behind Black digital humanities research.

Entries

• Where Zora Neale Hurston Gives Delia a Voice in “Sweat” -- Jade Harrison 

• The Majority Black Blocks in Edward P. Jones's Stories -- Kenton Rambsy

• The Changing Black Neighborhoods of Edward P. Jones’s Lost in the City -- Kenton Rambsy

• One Possible Solution for Organizing Short Fiction -- Kenton Rambsy   

• From Dataset to Interpretation -- Kenton Rambsy   

 • Genre Sensitivity and Annotation Decisions -- Kenton Rambsy   

• Transforming Literature into Data -- Kenton Rambsy   

• One Possible Solution for Organizing Short Fiction -- Kenton Rambsy   

• On Historical Periods Serving as the Default Framework for Short Stories -- Kenton Rambsy   

• A Structural Problem in the Study of Black Short Fiction -- Kenton Rambsy   

• Coding Imagination Within Clear Guidelines -- Kenton Rambsy   

• Quantifying Craft and Breaking Stories Into Data -- Kenton Rambsy   

• Interpreting Short Fiction Through Annotation -- Kenton Rambsy   

• When Spreadsheets Meet Black Literary Study -- Kenton Rambsy   

• Craft, Conversation, and Black Short Fiction-- Kenton Rambsy    

• The Data Rangers Research Team -- Kenton Rambsy   

• Edward P. Jones and Geo-Tagging Black Short Fiction -- Kenton Rambsy   

• Jade Harrison and the Architecture of Annotation -- Kenton Rambsy   

• Building a Dataset from Inside Black Short Stories -- Kenton Rambsy   

Related:

• Black Lit Studies Findings

• A Notebook on short stories by black writers

• Black Lit Network