English, literature, and writing scholars from the US and Europe offer 14 essays on the American short story. The first four essays discuss the development of the genre, scholarship on it, the
short stories of Annie Proulx, and metafiction by Tim O’Brien and Richard Russo, followed by analysis of Henry James’ “In the Cage”; Stephen Crane’s “The Blue Hotel”; Ernest Hemingway’s “The
Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio”; Zora Neale Hurston’s “The Country in the Woman”; Weldon Kees’ “Vanishing American”; Richard Wright’s Uncle Tom’s Children; Eudora Welty’s The Golden Apples;
Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Unaccustomed Earth”; Sherman Alexie’s Blasphemy; and microfiction. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
