From within the frame
Subtitle: storytelling in African-American fiction
By: Bertram D. Ashe.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-141) and index.
Table of contents: title: "A little personal attention" : storytelling and the Black audience in Charles W. Chesnutt's The conjure woman; title: "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; title: Listening to the blues : Ralph Ellison's Trueblood episode in Invisible man; title: The best "possible returns" : storytelling and gender relations in James Alan McPherson's "The story of a scar"; title: From within the frame : narrative negotiations with the Black aesthetic in Toni Cade Bambara's "My man Bovanne"; title: "Would she have believed any of it?" : interrogating the storytelling motive in John Edgar Wideman's "Doc's story."