Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature by Gayl Jones

Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature

Gayl Jones

228 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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The powerful novelist here turns penetrating critic, giving us—in lively style—both trenchant literary analysis and fresh insight on the art of writing. “When African American writers began to trust the literary possibilities of their own verbal a...

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