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Author Callahan, John F., 1940-

Title In the African-American grain : the pursuit of voice in twentieth-century Black fiction / John F. Callahan.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1988]
©1988

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 Moore Stacks  PS153.B53 C34 1988    Available  ---
Description 280 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents Who you for?: voice and the African-American fiction of democratic identity -- Spoken in the written word: African-American tales and the middle passage from Uncle Remus: His songs and sayings to The conjure woman -- "By de singin' uh de song": the search for reciprocal voice in Cane -- "Mah tongue is mah friend's mouf": the rhetoric of intimacy and immensity in Their eyes were watching God -- Frequencies of eloquence: the performance and composition of Invisible man -- A moveable form: the loose end blues of The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman -- Hoop of language: politics and the restoration of voice in Meridian -- Who we for?: the extended call of African-American fiction.
Form Also issued online.
Subject American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- African American authors.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Oral tradition -- United States.
Oral tradition.
United States.
Storytelling in literature.
Storytelling in literature.
Reader-response criticism.
Reader-response criticism.
Other Form: Online version: Callahan, John F., 1940- In the African-American grain. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1988 (OCoLC)572488296
ISBN 0252014596 alkaline paper
9780252014598 alkaline paper

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