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Ashe, Bertram D. "From Within the Frame: Storytelling in African-American Fiction," American Studies Program, College of William and Mary, June 1997.
The purpose of this study is to explore the written representation of African-American spoken-voice storytelling in Charles Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman, 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.” This study examines the process whereby the narrative “frame” that historically “contained” and “mediated” the black spoken voice modulated and developed to the extent that by the late sixties African-American writers published stories and novels in an unmediated spoken-voice, effectively emerging “from within the frame.” The results of this study suggest that the African-American “discourse of distrust” was a factor from the earliest fictions and is still very much a factor today.
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