The Heath Anthology of American Literature

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1 The Heath Anthology of American Literature FIFTH EDITION Volume C Late Nineteenth Century: Paul Lauter Trinity College General Editor Jackson R. Bryer University of Maryland King-Kok Cheung University of California, Los Angeles Anne Goodwyn Jones University of Missouri Wendy Martin Claremont Graduate University Quentin Miller Suffolk University John Alberti Northern Kentucky University Editor, Instructor's Guide James Kyung-Jin Lee University of California, Santa Barbara Associate Editor Richard Yarborough University of California, Los Angeles Associate General Editor Charles Molesworth Queens College, City University of New York Raymund Paredes University of Texas, San Antonio Ivy T. Schweitzer Dartmouth College Andrew O. Wiget New Mexico State University Sandra A. Zagarell Oberlin College Lois Leveen Electronic Resources Editor Mary Pat Brady Cornell University Associate Editor Houghton Mifflin Company Boston New York

2 CONTENTS xiii Preface LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY: Publishing and Writing 14 Circumstances and Literary Achievements of Women 18 Circumstances and Literary Achievements of African Americans 22 Circumstances and Literary Achievements of Native Americans 24 Circumstances and Literary Achievements of Mexican Americans 26 Circumstances and Literary Achievements of Asian Americans 29 Immigration, Urban Conditions, and Reform 35 Nation, Regions, Borders 37 African American Folktales 39 Animal Tales 39 When Brer Deer and Brer Terrapin Runned a Race 40 Why Mr. Dog Runs Brer Rabbit 41 How Sandy Got His Meat 43 Who Ate Up the Butter? 45 Fox and Rabbit in the Well 45 The Signifying Monkey 47 Memories of Slavery 47 Malitis 48 The Flying Africans 49 Conjure Stories 49 Two Tales from Eatonville, Florida 51 John and Old Marster 51 Master Disguised 51 The Diviner 52 Massa and the Bear 52 Baby in the Crib 53 John Steals a Pig and a Sheep

3 vi Contents 53 Talking Bones 54 Old Boss Wants into Heaven 56 Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) ( ) 58 Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog 62 from Roughing It 62 Chapter XLVIII, Buck Fanshaw's Funeral 67 A True Story 70 The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 101 from The Autobiography of Mark Twain 101 Chapter As Regards Patriotism 104 The War Prayer 107 Joel Chandler Harris ( ) 108 from Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings 108 Chapter II, The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story 109 Chapter IV, How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox 111 from Free Joe, and Other Georgian Sketches 111 Free Joe and the Rest of the World 119 Charles Waddell Chesnutt ( ) 120 What Is a White Man? 126 The Goophered Grapevine 135 The Passing of Grandison 147 The Wife of His Youth 155 Cluster: Literacy, Literature, and Democracy in Postbellum America 161 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper ( ) 161 Learning to Read 162 Zora Neale Hurston ( ) 162 How to Write a Letter 163 William Dean Howells ( ) 163 from Criticism and Fiction Editor's Easy Chair 166 Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) ( ) 166 from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 166 Notice and Explanatory 166 Kate Chopin ( ) 166 The Western Association of Writers

4 Contents vii 167 Alice Brown ( ) 167 Review of Sarah Orne Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs 168 Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins ( ) 168 Preface to Contending Forces 170 Charles Waddell Chesnutt ( ) 170 from Journal 171 Paul Laurence Dunbar ( ) 172 Mr. Cornelius Johnson, Office-Seeker 178 from Lyrics of Lowly Life 178 Frederick Douglass 180 An Ante-Bellum Sermon 182 We Wear the Mask 183 When Malindy Sings 185 from Lyrics of the Hearthside 185 Sympathy 185 George Washington Cable ( ) 187 'Tite Poulette 202 Grace King ( ) 203 The Little Convent Girl 208 Alice Dunbar-Nelson ( ) 209 Sister Josepha 214 Ghost Dance Song 215 Ghost Dance Songs 217 Alexander Lawrence Posey ( ) 219 Ode to Sequoyah 220 Hotgun on the Death of Yadeka Harjo 221 Fus Fixico's Letter Number John Milton Oskison ( ) 224 The Problem of Old Harjo 229 Corridos 230 Kiansis I/Kansas I 232 Gregorio Cortez 237 Jacinto Trevino 240 Hijo Desobediente/The Disobedient Son 242 Recordando al Presidente/Remembering the President 244 Corrido de Cesar Chavez/Ballad of Cesar Chavez

5 Vlll Contents Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton ( ) from The Squatter and the Don Chapter 5, The Don in His Broad Acres William Dean Howells ( ) from The Editor's Study Letters to the Editor of the New York Tribune Mary E. Wilkins's Short Stories Paul Laurence Dunbar Mr. Charles W Chesnutt's Stories Editha Henry James ( ) Daisy Miller: A Study The Art of Fiction The Jolly Corner Kate Chopin ( ) Desiree's Baby The Awakening Ambrose Bierce ( ?) Chickamauga Hamlin Garland ( ) Up the Coule: A Story of Wisconsin Stephen Crane ( ) A Mystery of Heroism The Open Boat The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky from The Black Riders and Other Lines God Lay Dead in Heaven from War Is Kind Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind The Impact of a Dollar upon the Heart A Man Said to the Universe A Newspaper Is a Collection of Half-Injustices There Was a Man with Tongue of Wood from Uncollected Poems Chant You Loud of Punishments Jack London ( ) South of the Slot

6 Contents ix 537 Critical Visions of Postbellum America 538 Standing Bear (Ponca) ( ) 540 What I Am Going to Tell You Here Will Take Me Until Dark 542 Charles Alexander Eastman (Sioux) ( ) 543 from The Soul of the Indian 543 Chapter I, The Great Mystery 547 from From the Deep Woods to Civilization 547 Chapter VII, The Ghost Dance War 554 Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony) (c ) 556 from Life Among the Piutes 556 Chapter I, First Meeting of Piutes and Whites 566 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper ( ) 568 Aunt Chloe's Politics 569 The Martyr of Alabama 571 A Double Standard 573 Songs for the People 574 Woman's Political Future 577 Charlotte Perkins Gilman ( ) 578 The Yellow Wall-Paper 590 Turned 597 Finley Peter Dunne ( ) 598 The Wanderers 600 The Popularity of Firemen 602 The Piano in the Parlor 603 Immigration 606 Upton Sinclair ( ) 608 The Jungle 608 from Chapter II 613 from Chapter IX 615 from Chapter XI 617 from Chapter XII 619 from Chapter XIV 621 Henry Adams ( ) 623 from Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres 623 Chapter VI, The Virgin of Chartres 634 from The Education of Henry Adams 634 Chapter XXV, The Dynamo and the Virgin

7 Contents 643 Developments in Women's Writing 644 Julia A. J. Foote ( ) 646 from A Brand Plucked from the Fire 646 Chapter XVII, My Call to Preach the Gospel 647 Chapter XIX, Public Effort Excommunication 648 Chapter XX, Women in the Gospel 650 Louisa May Alcott ( ). 652 My Contraband < 665 Harriet Prescott Spofford ( ) 667 Circumstance 675 Constance Fenimore Woolson ( ) 677 Miss Grief 693 Sarah Orne Jewett ( ) 694 A White Heron 701 Martha's Lady 712 Mary E. Wilkins Freeman ( ) 715 A New England Nun 723 The Revolt of "Mother" 734 Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins ( ) 735 from Contending Forces 735 Chapter VIII, The Sewing Circle 744 Chapter XIV, Luke Sawyer Speaks to the League 748 A Sheaf of Poetry by Late-Nineteenth- Century American Women Sarah M. B. Piatt ( ) Giving Back the Flower Shapes of a Soul The Palace-Burner We Two His Mother's Way Ella Wheeler Wilcox ( ) Goddess of Liberty, Answer Mary E. Wilkins Freeman ( ) Love and the Witches Sophie Jewett ( ) Entre Nous

8 Contents xi 759 Armistice 759 I Speak Your Name 760 E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) ( ) 760 The Camper 761 The Corn Husker 761 The Indian Corn Planter 762 Elaine Goodale Eastman ( ) 762 The Wood-Chopper to His Ax 763 The Cross and the Pagan 763 Alice Dunbar-Nelson ( ) 763 I Sit and Sew 764 You! Inez! 764 The Proletariat Speaks 765 Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn ( ) 765 Behold the Lillies 767 The Making of "Americans" 768 Abraham Cahan ( ) 770 from Yekl 770 Chapter 4, The Meeting 773 Chapter 9, The Parting 775 Chapter 10, A Defeated Victor 776 Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) ( ) 777 Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian 786 from Mrs. Spring Fragrance 786 In the Land of the Free 793 Onoto Watanna (Winifred Eaton) ( ) 795 A Half Caste 800 Mary Austin ( ) 802 from Earth Horizon 802 Chapter III 809 Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa, Sioux) ( ) 811 from The School Days of an Indian Girl 811 Chapter I, The Land of Red Apples 812 Chapter II, The Cutting of My Long Hair 814 Chapter III, The Snow Episode 815 Chapter VI, Four Strange Summers 817 Chapter VII, Incurring My Mother's Displeasure 819 Why I Am a Pagan

9 xii Contents Mary Antin ( ) from The Promised Land from Chapter IX Jose Marti ( ) Our America A-l Acknowledgments 1-1 Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines