From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative

achieved Afro-American letters Afro-American literature Afro-American narrative American articulate artistic ascent and immersion Atlanta authenticating strategy authenticating text authorial control authorial posture Autobiography becomes Bibb Bibb's Bigger Black Belt Black Boy Bledsoe's Bois's Booker Brown catalog chapter Clotel communitas construction context cultural documents Douglass Narrative Du Bois's Ellison episode event Ex-Coloured Man's example father fiction former slave's Frederick Douglass freedom genius loci hero heroic images immersion narrative Invisible Man's Johnson journey language myth of uplift narrative strategy narrative's narrator's Negro passage personal history phrase portrait Preface race rituals racial Ralph Ellison remarks revision revoices rhetoric ritual ground sense shackle slave narratives Slavery social structure Solomon Northup Sorrow Songs Souls of Black spatial expressions speech suggest symbolic geography symbolic space tale tion tive tradition tribal tropes Tuskegee Veil voice W. E. B. Du Bois Washington white world William Wells Brown Wright's persona writing York young Richard