This pioneering study of Afro-American narrative is far more critical, historical, and textual than biographical, chronological, and atextual. Robert Stepto asserts that Afro-American culture has its store of canonical stories or pregeneric myths, the primary one being the quest for freedom and literacy. This second edition includes a new preface and an afterward entitled "Distrust of the Reader in Afro-American Narratives."
| ISBN: | 9780252062117 |
| Publication date: | 3rd October 2023 |
| Author: | Robert B. Stepto |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 248 pages |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism |