From within the frame : storytelling in African-American fiction /: storytelling in African-American fiction. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Bertram D. Ashe.
• Other Names: Ashe, Bertram D, 1959-
• 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."
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (144 pages)
• Subjects: 813.009/23/08996073; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies; African Americans in literature; African Americans -- Intellectual life; American fiction; American fiction -- African American authors; Frame-stories; Storytelling in literature; 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; Vertelkunst; Amerikaans; Negers; Roman; Erzähltechnik; Kurzgeschichte; Rahmenerzählung; Prosa; Erzähltechnik; Kurzgeschichte; Prosa; Rahmenerzählung; Roman; Schwarze; USA; Schwarze; USA; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781136711138; 1136711139
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.