Liberating voices : oral tradition in African American literature / Gayl Jones.
1991
810.9896073 J77l
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Title
Liberating voices : oral tradition in African American literature / Gayl Jones.
Author
ISBN
0674530241 (alk. paper)
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991.
Language
English
Description
viii, 228 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
810.9896073 J77l
System Control No.
(OCoLC)22347550
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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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