William L. Andrews\u27 To Tell a Free Story is a fine study of the history and development of the Afro-American narrative in its first century. Andrews presents the narrative in the hands of its creators as a dynamic form which, when studied for its process of telling, expresses the movement of its writers from an absence of self to a celebration of both self and community. It follows in the footsteps of Andrew\u27s\u27 other important contributions to the field of black studies, and promises to serve as a resource to which other studies of the genre can look
