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

SeriesLiterary criticism and cultural theory
Literary criticism and cultural theory. ^A445191
Contents A little personal attention : storytelling and the Black audience in Charles 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.
LCCN 2002002524
ISBN0415939542 (acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS374.B635 A84 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold