
From within the frame storytelling in African-American fiction
Title:
From within the frame storytelling in African-American fiction
Author:
Ashe, Bertram D., 1959-
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New York : Routledge, 2002.
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ix, 147 p.
Series:
Literary criticism and cultural theory : outstanding dissertations
Literary criticism and cultural theory.
Contents:
"A little personal attention" : storytelling and the Black audience in Charles W. Chesnutt's The conjure woman -- "Ah don't mean to bother wid tellin' 'em nothin'" : Zora Neale Hurston's critique of the storytelling aesthetic in Their eyes were watching God -- Listening to the blues : Ralph Ellison's Trueblood episode in Invisible man -- The best "possible returns" : storytelling and gender relations in James Alan McPherson's "The story of a scar" -- From within the frame : narrative negotiations with the Black aesthetic in Toni Cade Bambara's "My man Bovanne" -- "Would she have believed any of it?" : interrogating the storytelling motive in John Edgar Wideman's "Doc's story."
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