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From Within the Frame: Storytelling in African-American Studies - Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Bertram D. Ashe 1st edition
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From Within the Frame: Storytelling in African-American Studies - Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Bertram D. Ashe
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.
160 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 3, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415861021 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 160 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 226 g |
| Language | English |
