From Within the Frame: Storytelling in African-American Studies (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) - Softcover

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Ashe, Bertram D. D.

 
9780415861021: From Within the Frame: Storytelling in African-American Studies (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
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ISBN 10: 0415861020 ISBN 13: 9780415861021
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

The book explores the written representation of African-American oral storytelling from Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison to James Alan McPherson, Toni Cade Bambara and John Edgar Wideman. At its core, the book compares the relationship of the "frame tale"-an inside-the-text storyteller telling a tale to an inside-the-text listener-with the relationship between the outside-the-text writer and reader. The progression is from Chesnutt's 1899 frame texts, in which the black spoken voice is contained by a white narrator/listener, to Bambara's sixties-era example of a "frameless" spoken voice text, to Wideman's neo-frame text of the late 20th century.

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Bertram D. Ashe

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415861020
ISBN 13 
9780415861021
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
160

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