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Mar 5, 2020 · Publication date. 1991. Topics. Mündliche Überlieferung, Schwarze, United States, USA, Literature and folklore, Literatur, Literature and folklore -- United States -- History -- 20th century, American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism, African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century, American literature ...
Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature. Gayl Jones. Harvard University Press, 1991 - History - 228 pages. The powerful novelist here turns penetrating critic,...
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May 1, 1991 · She documents how literary form is inherently and intensely national, and shows how the European monopoly on acceptable forms for literary art stifled American writers both black and white.
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The twentieth century saw a new confidence and deliberateness in African American work: the move from surface use of dialect to articulation of a genuine black voice; the move from blacks...
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In Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature, Gayl Jones succeeds both in promulgating a scholarly thesis and in standing right inside of the traditions she explicates.
Jan 24, 1993 · This article discusses the contemporary British Caribbean writer Caryl Phillips and the twentieth-century African-American writer James Baldwin within a comparative framework that speaks to the … Expand
Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1991. 228 pp. Cloth: $27.95.
