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From within the frame : storytelling in African-American fiction

Title
From within the frame : storytelling in African-American fiction / Bertram D. Ashe.
Author
Ashe, Bertram D., 1959-
Publication
New York : Routledge, 2002.

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Description
ix, 147 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Literary criticism and cultural theory
Subject
  • American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism
  • American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Frame-stories > History and criticism
  • African Americans in literature
  • Storytelling in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-141) and index.
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."
Call Number
Sc E 02-1282
ISBN
0415939542 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2002002524
OCLC
49349786
Author
Ashe, Bertram D., 1959-
Title
From within the frame : storytelling in African-American fiction / Bertram D. Ashe.
Imprint
New York : Routledge, 2002.
Series
Literary criticism and cultural theory
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-141) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 02-1282
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