From behind the veil : a study of Afro-American narrative / Robert B. Stepto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stepto, Robert B.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American prose literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American prose literature.

American prose literature--African American authors.

African Americans--Biography--History and criticism.

African Americans.

African Americans--Biography.

Autobiography--African American authors.

Autobiography.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans--Historiography.

African Americans in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 203 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1979.

Contents:

One. The Call. I Rose and Found My Voice: Narration, Authentication, and Authorial Control in Four Slave Narratives; Lost in a Cause: Booker T. Washington's "Up from Slavery"; The Quest of the Weary Traveler: W. E. B. Du Bois's "The Souls of Black Folk

Two. The Response. Lost in a Quest: James Weldon Johnson's "The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man"; Literacy and Ascent: Richard Wright's "black Boy"; Literacy and Hibernation: Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-198) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0252007522

OCLC:

4774696