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In the African-American grain : call-and-response in twentieth-century Black fiction

Title
In the African-American grain : call-and-response in twentieth-century Black fiction / John F. Callahan.
Author
Callahan, John F., 1940-
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2001.

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Description
xxi, 280 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism
  • American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • African Americans in literature
  • African American oral tradition
  • Oral tradition in literature
  • Storytelling in literature
  • Reader-response criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
Who you for?: voice and the African-American fiction of democratic identity -- The spoken in the written word: African-American tales and the middle passage from Uncle Remus: His songs and sayings to The conjure woman -- "By de singin' uh de song": the search for reciprocal voice in Cane -- "Mah tongue is mah friend's mouf": the rhetoric of intimacy and immensity in Their eyes were watching God -- Frequencies of eloquence: the performance and composition of Invisible man -- A moveable form: the loose end blues of The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman -- The hoop of language: politics and the restoration of voice in Meridian -- Who we for?: the extended call of African-American fiction.
Call Number
Sc D 02-34
ISBN
025206982X
OCLC
47657232
Author
Callahan, John F., 1940-
Title
In the African-American grain : call-and-response in twentieth-century Black fiction / John F. Callahan.
Imprint
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2001.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographies and index.
Research Call Number
Sc D 02-34
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