The book explores the written representation of African-American
oral storytelling from Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston and
Ralph Ellison to James Alan McPherson, Toni Cade Bambara and John
Edgar Wideman. At its core, the book compares the relationship of
the "frame tale"-an inside-the-text storyteller telling a tale to
an inside-the-text listener-with the relationship between the
outside-the-text writer and reader. The progression is from
Chesnutt's 1899 frame texts, in which the black spoken voice is
contained by a white narrator/listener, to Bambara's sixties-era
example of a "frameless" spoken voice text, to Wideman's neo-frame
text of the late 20th century.
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