Telling Narratives L. Lynn Stansberry Brusnahan While the primary themes involve

While the primary themes involve overcoming impossible odds

provides transcripts of actual client sessions

trainers and programme directors alike and is on the recommended reading lists of a number of VTS schemes

The introduction and section openers frame major problems and questions facing the field

Instructors can easily expand on any of the topics they wish to emphasize

Telling Narratives L. Lynn Stansberry Brusnahan While the primary themes involveTelling Narratives analyzes key texts from nineteenth and early twentieth century African American literature to demonstrate how secrets and their many tellings have become slavery's legacy. By focusing on the ways secrets are told in texts by Jessie Fauset, Charles W. Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, Frederick Douglass, and others, Leslie W. Lewis suggests an alternative model to the feminist dichotomy of ''breaking silence'' in response to sexual