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Author:

Ashe, Bertram D., 1959-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

ix, 147 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Frame-stories--History and criticism.
African Americans in literature
Storytelling in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-141) and index.

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."

Series:

Literary criticism and cultural theory

ISBN:

9780415939546 (acid-free paper)
0415939542 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)49349786

LCCN:

2002002524

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)