title: Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors
author:  Jewell Parker Rhodes 
description: Sure, Jewell Parker Rhodes is African American. Many of the writing traditions to which she refers in <i>Free Within Ourselves</i>--the slave narrative, trickster legends--are specific to African American culture. The resonant works of short fiction, reprinted here in their entirety, that she uses to illustrate fictional elements were written by such African Americans as Zora Neale Hurston, Charles Johnson, Toni Cade Bambara, and John Edgar Wideman. The 67 authors whose pearls of writing wisdom bring this book to its fine conclusion are all African American. Rhodes even bills her book as "fiction lessons for black authors." So why should the rest of us bother?
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  Kayla Wren
  
  
  Bonus Study
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  First published by Black Cherry Publishing 2021
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2021 by Kayla Wren
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or
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  recording, scanning, or otherwise without written permission from the
  publisher. It is illegal to copy this book, post it to a website, or
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  This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents
  portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to
  actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  Kayla Wren asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this
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  First edition
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN: 978-1-914242-08-3
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover art by Black Cherry Book Covers  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This book was professionally 