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Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature [Hardcover]

Gayl Jones (Author)

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Hardcover: 228 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press (May 1, 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674530241
ISBN-13: 978-0674530249
Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,609,111 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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black aesthetic, blues ballad, folk creators, jazz perspective, transcription techniques, dialect tradition, eye dialect, literary dialect, folk character, folk speech

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African American, Invisible Man, Uncle Joe, European American, Miss Jane, Don Quijote, Miss Lucy, The Screamers, Tea Cake, Kid Jones, Sterling Brown, Flying Home, James Weldon Johnson, The Lynching of Jube Benson, Richard Wright, Alice Walker, Song of Solomon, James Baldwin, Jean Toomer, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Ishmael Reed, Lynn Hope, Ernest Gaines

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32 books cite this book:

Historical Nightmares and Imaginative Violence in American Women's Writings (Contributions in Women's Studies) by Amy S. Gottfried on page 73, page 88, and Back Matter
Black Intellectuals, Black Cognition, and a Black Aesthetic by William D. Wright on page 149, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
'Sweat': Written by Zora Neale Hurston (Women Writers) by Cheryl A. Wall in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Producing American Races: Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison (New Americanists) by Patricia McKee in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Voices from the Quarters: The Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines (Southern Literary Studies) by Mary Ellen Doyle on page 134, and Back Matter

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