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The Power of the Porch: Storyteller's Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor and Randall Kenan - Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures
Trudier Harris
The Power of the Porch: Storyteller's Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor and Randall Kenan - Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures
Trudier Harris
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.
160 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | 1997 |
ISBN13 | 9780820318578 |
Publishers | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 160 |
Dimensions | 127 × 216 × 18 mm · 390 g |
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