num_pages: 248
description: This pioneering study of Afro-American narrative is far more critical, historical, and textual than biographical, chronological, and atextual. Robert Stepto asserts that Afro-American culture has its store of canonical stories or pregeneric myths, the primary one being the quest for freedom and literacy. This second edition includes a new preface and an afterward entitled "Distrust of the Reader in Afro-American Narratives." 
language: English
title: From behind the veil: a study of Afro-American narrative
titlecomplete: From behind the veil: a study of Afro-American narrative
genres: Race, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 10
publisher: University of Illinois Press