From within the frame storytelling in African-American fiction /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2002.
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| Series: | Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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Table of 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."