LEADER 03780oam 2200745I 450 001 9910808950203321 005 20240131142111.0 010 $a1-136-71113-9 010 $a0-203-95375-4 010 $a1-299-28583-X 010 $a1-136-71114-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203953754 035 $a(CKB)1000000000559073 035 $a(EBL)1144666 035 $a(OCoLC)831119273 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000702695 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11397468 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000702695 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10686095 035 $a(PQKB)11093346 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1144666 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1144666 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10670490 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL459833 035 $a(OCoLC)830322487 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB134372 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000559073 100 $a20180706d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFrom within the frame $estorytelling in African-American fiction /$fBertram D. Ashe 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2002. 215 $a1 online resource (163 p.) 225 1 $aLiterary criticism and cultural theory : outstanding dissertations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-86102-0 311 $a0-415-93954-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 133-141) and index. 327 $a"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." 330 $aThe book explores the written representation of African-American oral storytelling from Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison to James Alan McPherson, Toni Cade Bambara and John Edgar Wideman. At its core, the book compares the relationship of the ""frame tale""-an inside-the-text storyteller telling a tale to an inside-the-text listener-with the relationship between the outside-the-text writer and reader. The progression is from Chesnutt's 1899 frame texts, in which the black spoken voice is contained by a white narrator/listener, to Bambara's sixties-era example of a ""fra 410 0$aLiterary criticism and cultural theory. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life$y20th century 606 $aFrame-stories$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aStorytelling in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life 615 0$aFrame-stories$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aStorytelling in literature. 676 $a813.009/23/08996073 700 $aAshe$b Bertram D.$f1959-,$01686863 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808950203321 996 $aFrom within the frame$94059916 997 $aUNINA