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    Aesthetic Re-Creation and Regeneration in African American Storytelling: The Works of Torrence, Goss and Alston

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    Date
    2015
    Author
    Reed, Caroliese Frink
    Advisor
    Abarry, Abu Shardow, 1947-
    Committee member
    Asante, Molefi Kete, 1942-
    Williams-Witherspoon, Kimmika
    Thomas, Griselda
    Department
    African American Studies
    Subject
    African American Studies
    Black Studies
    Performing Arts
    African Aesthetics
    African American Storytelling
    Ethnic Studies
    Narrative Analysis
    Oral Tradition
    Storytelling
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/3439
    Abstract
    From the animal and trickster tales told by enslaved Africans in America to current education and performance based storytelling by contemporary African American storytellers, this study traces the aesthetics and epistemologies of the collaborative African diasporic oral expressive traditions. Through systematic analysis based on data derived from bibliographic and archival sources, interviews, and participant observation, it delineates the progression of the repertoire and content of Blackstorytelling through the lives and works of national and internationally known storytellers, Jackie Torrence, Linda Goss and Charlotte Blake Alston. Its theoretical framework is inspired by Kariamu Welsh Asante’s aesthetic senses coupled with pertinent ideas of other scholars in the field. The study demonstrates the existence of significant evidence of cultural preservation and artistic re-interpretation of the African aesthetic in Blackstorytelling. The genre comprises both traditional and contemporary expressions of African American culture. As such, it is a major component of the universal African oral continuum
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