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Church, State, And School: The Education Of Freedmen In Virginia, 1861-1870, Susan W. Gillespie
Church, State, And School: The Education Of Freedmen In Virginia, 1861-1870, Susan W. Gillespie
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Reaching For Freedom: Black Resistance And The Roots Of A Gendered African-American Culture In Late Eighteenth Century Massachusetts, Emily V. Blanck
Reaching For Freedom: Black Resistance And The Roots Of A Gendered African-American Culture In Late Eighteenth Century Massachusetts, Emily V. Blanck
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From Within The Frame: Storytelling In African-American Fiction, Bertram Duane Ashe
From Within The Frame: Storytelling In African-American Fiction, Bertram Duane Ashe
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The purpose of this study is to explore the written representation of African-American spoken-voice storytelling in five fictional narratives published between the late nineteenth century and the late twentieth century: Charles W. Chesnutt's "Hot-Foot Hannibal," Zora Neale Hurston's their Eyes Were Watching God, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Toni Cade Bambara's "My Man Bovanne," and John Edgar Wideman's "Doc's Story.".;Using Walter Ong's suggestion that the relationship between storyteller and inside-the-text listener mirrors the hoped-for relationship between writer and readership, this study examines the way these writers grappled with these factors as they generated their texts.;By paying attention to the teller/listener-writer/readership relationship, …