The Power of the Porch: The Storyteller's Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan

by Trudier Harris

Book Overview

Southern literature is often celebrated for its "told," rather than "written," qualities. Drawing on her own experiences of front-porch storytelling among family, friends, and neighbors, Trudier Harris looks across the generations of twentieth-century southern writers to focus on three African Americans who possess the "power of the porch."

In ways that are highly individual, says Harris, yet still within a shared oral tradition,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820318574
• ISBN13: 9780820318578
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.2"