From within the frame storytelling in African-American fiction / Bertram D. Ashe.

SeriesLiterary criticism and cultural theory
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."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 133-141) and index.
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LCCN 2002002524
ISBN0415939542 (alk. paper)

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