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From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative
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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 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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Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Country
United States
Date
15 January 1991
Pages
248
ISBN
9780252062117

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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Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Country
United States
Date
15 January 1991
Pages
248
ISBN
9780252062117