, of course, the lived historical experience of oppression as the basic fact of life. That is the source of narrative power. That power lends stature to narrative methods of ethical discourse.
Cannon uses three main literary figures of black culture to make the "story" of black womanist ethics clear: Zora Neale Hurston, Howard Thurman, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Hurston was a figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a contemporary of such figures as Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen. However, unlike tho
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