by Robert B. Stepto
University of Illinois Press, 1991
Cloth: 978-0-252-00752-1 | Paper: 978-0-252-06211-7
Library of Congress Classification PS366.A35S7 1991
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.009896073

ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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."