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Liberating voices : oral tradition in African American literature
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- Creator
- Gayl Jones
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991
- Physical Details
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- viii, 228 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0674530241, 9780674530249, 0140166556, 9780140166552
- OCLC
- ocm22347550
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-221) and index.
- From dialect to blues and spirituals : Paul L. Dunbar and Langston Hughes -- Folk speech and character revelation : Sterling Brown's "Uncle Joe" -- Multiple-voiced blues : Sherley A. Williams's "Someone sweet angel chile" -- Jazz modalities : Michael S. Harper's "Uplift from a dark tower" -- Breaking out of the conventions of dialect : Paul L. Dunbar and Zora Neale Hurston -- Blues ballad : Jean Toomer's "Karintha" -- Slang, theme, and structure : Loyle Hairston's "The winds of change" -- Jazz/blues structure in Ann Petry's "Solo on the drums" -- Folktale, character, and resolution : Ralph Ellison's "Flying home" -- The freeing of traditional forms : jazz and Amiri Baraka's "The screamers" -- Dialect and narrative : Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God -- Riddle : Ralph Ellison's Invisible man, or "Change the joke and slip the yoke" -- Blues and spirituals : dramatic and lyrical patterns in Alice Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland -- Freeing the voice : Ernest Gaines's The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman -- Motives of folktale : Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
Subjects
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
- Literature and folklore -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
- African Americans in literature.
- African American oral tradition.
- Folklore in literature.
- Music and literature.