The power of the porch : the storyteller's craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan
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The power of the porch : the storyteller's craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan
（Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures, no. 39）
University of Georgia Press, c1996
Available at 15 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical notes (p. 137-144), bibliography (p. 145-147), and index
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Description
This text examines the power of the front porch storytelling techniques, celebrating the oral tradition of the Black American South. It focuses on three contemporary southern writers, whom the author feels posses the ""power of the porch"" to reach out, draw in and fill an audience with anticipation.
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