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Author Callahan, John F., 1940-

Title In the African-American grain : the pursuit of voice in twentieth-century Black fiction / John F. Callahan.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1988]
©1988

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  813.009 C156I    Check Shelf
Description 280 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents Who you for?: voice and the African-American fiction of democratic identity -- The spoken in the written word: African-American tales and the middle passage from Uncle Remus: His songs and sayings to The conjure woman -- "By de singin' uh de song": the search for reciprocal voice in Cane -- "Mah tongue is mah friend's mouf": the rhetoric of intimacy and immensity in Their eyes were watching God -- Frequencies of eloquence: the performance and composition of Invisible man -- A moveable form: the loose end blues of The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman -- The hoop of language: politics and the restoration of voice in Meridian -- Who we for?: the extended call of African-American fiction.
Subject American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
African Americans in literature.
Oral tradition -- United States.
Storytelling in literature.
Reader-response criticism.
ISBN 0252014596 alkaline paper
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