"A little personal attention" : storytelling and the Black audience in Charles W. Chesnutt's The conjure woman
"Ah don't mean to bother wid tellin' 'em nothin'" : Zora Neale Hurston's critique of the storytelling aesthetic in Their eyes were watching God
Listening to the blues : Ralph Ellison's Trueblood episode in Invisible man
The best "possible returns" : storytelling and gender relations in James Alan McPherson's "The story of a scar"
From within the frame : narrative negotiations with the Black aesthetic in Toni Cade Bambara's "My man Bovanne"
"Would she have believed any of it?" : interrogating the storytelling motive in John Edgar Wideman's "Doc's story."