From Behind the Veil

A Study of Afro-American Narrative

• Author(s): Robert B. Stepto,
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Pages: 225
• ISBN_10: 0252062116
  ISBN_13: 9780252062117
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black , Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / Nonfiction (incl. Memoirs) , Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / American / General , Literary Criticism / American / African American & Black , Social Science / Regional Studies ,

Description:... 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."