From Behind the VeilThis pioneering study of Afro American narrative is far more critical, historical, and textual than biographical, chronological, and atextual. Robert Stepto asserts that Afro American culture has its store of canonical stories or pregeneric myths, the primary one being the quest for freedom and literacy. This second edition includes a new preface and an afterward entitled "Distrust of the Reader in Afro American Narratives."