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1 online resource (169 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Intertwining Strings; 1. Getting the Joke: Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings and Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman; 2. Paradise Disrupted: William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God; 3. Getting the Last Laugh: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Eudora Welty's Losing Battles; 4. Haunted by Stories: Ernest Gaines's A Gathering of Old Men and Ellen Douglas's Can't Quit You, Baby; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index. |
| Summary |
In Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White, Sarah Gilbreath Ford explores how both black and white southern writers such as Joel Chandler Harris, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Ellen Douglas, and Ernest Gaines have employed oral storytelling in literature. Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White is a study of the historical use of oral storytelling by southern writers in written works. In each chapter, Sarah Gilbreath Ford pairs a white and an African American writer to highlight points of confluence in black and white sout. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Oral tradition -- Southern States.
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Oral tradition. |
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Southern States. |
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Storytelling in literature.
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Storytelling in literature. |
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American fiction -- White authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- White authors. |
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American fiction. |
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American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- African American authors. |
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American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| ISBN |
9780817387464 (electronic book) |
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0817387463 (electronic book) |
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9780817387464 |
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0817387463 |
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