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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."

From Behind the Veil: A STUDY OF AFRO-AMERICAN NARRATIVE

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This pioneering study of Afro-American narrative is far more critical, historical, and textual than biographical, chronological, and atextual. Robert Stepto... Read more

    Publisher: University of Illinois Press
    Publication Date: 01/06/1991
    ISBN13: 9780252062117, 978-0252062117
    ISBN10: 0252062116

    Number of Pages: 248

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    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."

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