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In the African-American grain : call-and-response in twentieth-century Black fiction by John F. Callahan is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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"In the African-American Grain is a powerful exploration of the impact of African-American oral storytelling techniques on modern and contemporary fiction. Reading literature in the call-and-response tradition, John F. Callahan shows how African-American writers including Charles Chesnutt, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Gaines, and Alice Walker have used the forms and forces of this uniquely participatory discourse to establish not only a potential relationship between st
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- Author
- John F. Callahan
- Publisher
- Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 2001.
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780252069826
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, African American & Black
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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