Telling Narratives L. Lynn Stansberry Brusnahan and community and multidisciplinary collaboration

and community and multidisciplinary collaboration

While the primary themes involve overcoming impossible odds

The introduction and section openers frame major problems and questions facing the field

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Telling Narratives L. Lynn Stansberry Brusnahan and community and multidisciplinary collaborationTelling Narratives analyzes key texts from nineteenth and early twentieth century African American literature to demonstrate how secrets and their many tellings have become slavery's legacy. By focusing on the ways secrets are told in texts by Jessie Fauset, Charles W. Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, Frederick Douglass, and others, Leslie W. Lewis suggests an alternative model to the feminist dichotomy of ''breaking silence'' in response to sexual