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Offering students and scholars a variety of interpretations from which to fashion their own views of the novel and the man who created it, this text takes the position that there can be no last word on "Invisible Man". The essays share a respect for the novel's fluidity and for every reader's encounter with its narrator, story, and meanings.

African American men in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Afro-American men in literature --- Ellison, Ralph.

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Race discrimination in literature. --- Segregation in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- American literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- History and criticism. --- African American authors

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These essays suggest an approach to all genres of literature and blend creativity, form, culture, and history into a revisionary aesthetic that allows for no identity or history to remain fixed, with Parks arguing that in order to be relevant they must all be dynamic and democratic.

Parks, Suzan-Lori --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation --- African Americans in literature. --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- פרקס, סוזן־לורי

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The book explores the written representation of African-American oral storytelling from Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison to James Alan McPherson, Toni Cade Bambara and John Edgar Wideman. At its core, the book compares the relationship of the ""frame tale""-an inside-the-text storyteller telling a tale to an inside-the-text listener-with the relationship between the outside-the-text writer and reader. The progression is from Chesnutt's 1899 frame texts, in which the black spoken voice is contained by a white narrator/listener, to Bambara's sixties-era example of a ""fra

American fiction --- African Americans --- Frame-stories --- African Americans in literature. --- Storytelling in literature. --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life

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Historical drama, American --- Literature and history --- African Americans in literature. --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- History and criticism. --- Wilson, August --- Kittel, Frederick August --- Criticism and interpretation.