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

Trudier Harris

(Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures, no. 39)

University of Georgia Press, c1996

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Includes bibliographical notes (p. 137-144), bibliography (p. 145-147), and index

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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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