From within the frame [electronic resource] : storytelling in African-American fiction / Bertram D. Ashe.
By: Ashe, Bertram D.
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BookSeries: Literary criticism and cultural theory: Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2002Description: ix, 147 p.Subject(s): American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism | American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century | Frame-stories -- History and criticism | African Americans in literature | Storytelling in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 813.009/23/08996073 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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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.
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