Title The power of the porch : the storyteller's craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan / Trudier Harris.

Publication Info.	Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1996]
	©1996

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS374.B635 H35 1996	Available	---

Description	xiv, 152 pages ; 21 cm.
Series	Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures ; no. 39
	Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures ; no. 39.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-147) and index.
Contents	Performing personae and Southern hospitality: Zora Neale Hurston in Mules and men -- The eye as voice and ear: African Southern orality and folklore in Gloria Naylor's Mama day -- Southern voices, Southern tales: Randall Kenan's "Clarence and the dead".
Subject	American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
	American fiction -- African American authors.
	Literature and folklore -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
	Literature and folklore.
	Southern States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
	American fiction.
	Hurston, Zora Neale -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Hurston, Zora Neale.
	Criticism and interpretation.
	African American oral tradition -- Southern States.
	African American oral tradition.
	Naylor, Gloria -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Naylor, Gloria.
	Kenan, Randall -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Kenan, Randall.
	African Americans -- Southern States -- Folklore.
	African Americans.
Genre/Form	Folklore.
Subject	Southern States -- In literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	Storytelling in literature.
	Storytelling in literature.
	Narration (Rhetoric)
	Narration (Rhetoric)
ISBN	0820318574 alkaline paper