Short fiction -- Introduction -- Dialect tales -- Nondialect stories -- Writer -- Introduction -- Journal entry: March 16, 1880 -- Journal entry: May 29, 1880 -- What is a white man? -- Future American: what the race is likely to become in the process of time -- Superstitions and folklore of the South -- Post-Bellum: Pre-Harlem -- Critics -- Introduction -- William Dean Howells -- J. Saunders Redding -- William L. Andrews -- Houston A. Baker Jr. -- Eric J. Sundquist -- Ben Slote.