In the African-American Grain: Call-And-Response in Twentieth-Century Black Fiction

by John F. Callahan

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In the African-American Grain is a powerful exploration of the impact of African-American oral storytelling techniques on modern and contemporary fiction. Reading literature in the call-and-response tradition, John F. Callahan shows how African-American writers including Charles Chesnutt, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Gaines, and Alice Walker have used the forms and forces of this uniquely participatory discourse to establish...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0819562327

ISBN13:9780819562326

Release Date:April 1990

Publisher:Wesleyan

Length:302 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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