Ashe, Bertram D., 1959-
From within the frame storytelling in African-American fiction / [electronic resource] : Bertram D. Ashe. - New York : Routledge, 2002. - ix, 147 p. - Literary criticism and cultural theory : outstanding dissertations . - Literary criticism and cultural theory. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-141) and index.
"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."
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
Frame-stories--History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
Storytelling in literature.
Electronic books.
PS374.N4 / A84 2002eb
813.009/23/08996073
From within the frame storytelling in African-American fiction / [electronic resource] : Bertram D. Ashe. - New York : Routledge, 2002. - ix, 147 p. - Literary criticism and cultural theory : outstanding dissertations . - Literary criticism and cultural theory. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-141) and index.
"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."
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
Frame-stories--History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
Storytelling in literature.
Electronic books.
PS374.N4 / A84 2002eb
813.009/23/08996073