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

By John F. Callahan

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252014596
• ISBN13: 9780252014598
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.