From within the frame : storytelling in African-American fiction - Ashe, Bertram D., 1959- (New York : Routledge, 2002)
"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."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-141) and index.
Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
Electronic reproduction. Santa Fe, Arg.: elibro, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to eLibro affiliated libraries.
Keywords: 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; Electronic books