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Liberating voices, oral tradition in African American literature, Gayl Jones

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Liberating voices, oral tradition in African American literature, Gayl Jones

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-221) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Liberating voices

Nature of contents

bibliography

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22347550

Responsibility statement

Gayl Jones

Sub title

oral tradition in African American literature

Table Of Contents

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

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