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

From Behind the Veil

A STUDY OF AFRO-AMERICAN NARRATIVE

By: Robert Burns Stepto

Paperback | 16 March 1991 | Edition Number 2

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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.'' ''Uniquely penetrating and precise. . . . The strength of Stepto's method is that it allows us to see black prose fiction as a self-enclosed entity, innovating and elaborating within its own traditions, without resorting to extraliterary arguments.'' -- Essence

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