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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819562327
• ISBN13: 9780819562326
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: Wesleyan
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"