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 |