From Within the Frame : Storytelling in African-American Studies.

From Within the Frame : Storytelling in African-American Studies.

The book explores the written representation of African-American oral storytelling from Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison to James Alan McPherson, Toni Cade Bambara and John Edgar Wideman. At its core, the book compares the relationship of the ""frame tale""-...

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Main Author: Ashe, Bertram D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Series:Literary criticism and cultural theory.
Subjects:
1900-1999
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 literature.
African Americans in literature
African Americans > Intellectual life
American fiction
American fiction > African American authors
Frame-stories
Storytelling in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; FROM WITHIN THE FRAME: Storytelling in African-American Fiction; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 ""A little personal attention"": Storytelling and the Black Audience in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman; CHAPTER 2 ''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; CHAPTER 3 Listening to the Blues: Ralph Ellison's Trueblood Episode in Inviszole Man.
  • CHAPTER 4 The Best Possible Returns: Storytelling and Gender Relations in James Alan McPherson's The Story of a ScarCHAPTER 5 From Within the Frame: Narrative Negotiations with the Black Aesthetic in Toni Cade Bambara's My Man Bovanne
  • CHAPTER 6 Would she have believed any of it?: Interrogating the Storytelling Motive in John Edgar Wideman's Doc's Story
  • Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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