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."
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