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Author Ashe, Bertram D., 1959-

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

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 147 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Literary criticism and cultural theory
Literary criticism and cultural theory.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-141) and index.
Contents "A little personal attention" : storytelling and the Black audience in Charles W. 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."
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
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.
Frame-stories -- History and criticism.
Frame-stories.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Storytelling in literature.
Storytelling in literature.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Ashe, Bertram D., 1959- From within the frame. New York : Routledge, 2002 0415939542 (DLC) 2002002524 (OCoLC)49349786
ISBN 9781136711145 (electronic book)
1136711147 (electronic book)
0415939542
9780415939546