Bertram D. Ashe

From Within the Frame

Storytelling in African-American Studies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9780415861021
• ISBN-10: 0415861020
• Artikelnr.: 37314366

Autorenporträt

Bertram D. Ashe

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements/Introduction Chapter 1 A Little Personal Attention:
Storytelling and the Black Audience in Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman
Chapter 2 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 Chapter 3 Listening to the Blues: Ralph Ellison's Trueblood
Episode in Invisible Man Chapter 4 The Best Possible Returns: Storytelling
and Gender Relations in James Alan McPherson's The Story of a Scar Chapter
5 From Within the Frame: Narrative Negotiations with the Black Aesthetic in
Toni Cade Bambara's My Man Bovanne Chapter 6 Would she have believed any of
it?: Interrogating the Storytelling Motive in John Edgar Wideman's Doc's
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