A01=Bertram D. Ashe
Absurd Predicament
African American literature
African American narrative structure research
African American Vernacular Tradition
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Author_Bertram D. Ashe
Black Aesthetic
Black Arts Movement
Black cultural criticism
Black Macho
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Conjure Stories
Conjure Woman
Embedded Narrative
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frame narrative technique
Frame Text
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Goophered Grapevine
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Invisible Man
james
Janie's Story
Janie’s Story
literary audience theory
Mah Friend's Mouf
Man Bovanne
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Mrican American Men
Mrican American Writer
narrative voice studies
oral tradition analysis
Silver Dollar
storytelling
Storytelling Event
Tea Cake
Tobe's Tribulations
Tobe’s Tribulations
Virtual Reader
White America
writers
Young Man
Youthful Ageism
Product details
- ISBN 9780415939546
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jun 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
