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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashe, Bertram D., 1959-

Series:

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--African American authors.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Frame-stories--History and criticism.

Frame-stories.

African Americans in literature.

Storytelling in literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 147 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2002.

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."

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0415939542

OCLC:

49349786