SOURCE: “The Short Story,” in Silence to the Drums: Survey of the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance, Greenwood Press, 1976, pp. 110-37.
In the following excerpt from her book-length study of the literature of the Harlem Renaissance, Perry notes the Dostoevskian tone of West's short stories and her effective portrayal of the conflicts inherent in black middle-class life.
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