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Race and Form: Towards a Contextualized Narratology of African American Autobiography

Race and Form: Towards a Contextualized Narratology of African American Autobiography

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Literary CriticismAnthropology

ISBN10: 3039110039
ISBN13: 9783039110032
Publisher: Peter Lang Uk
Published: Jan 29 2007
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This study presents a contextualized narratology of African American autobiography. The author compares eight autobiographies by seven African American writers from different periods (namely, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou and Gwendolyn Brooks) and focuses on both the issue of race and such formal elements as temporal arrangement, narrative situation, narrative perspective, present tense, commentary, unreliability as well as audience. In addition to proposing a major framework for the narratology of autobiography in the opening chapter, the succeeding practical analyses draw on other approaches, such as stylistics and rhetoric, which complement narratology in the investigation of how a story is presented.

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