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

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

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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 not only a potential…

Author: John F. Callahan · Original publisher: University of Illinois Press (Urbana, 1988)

Tier 3 — Partial text + link. No text is hosted on Gary NOI. Read free: https://archive.org/details/inafricanamerica0000call (Internet Archive lending copy — borrowable; IA item ID as recorded in Tranche B1: inafricanamerica0000call; no hosting rights).

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