Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 132 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 279 g
The Storyteller's Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan
Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 132 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 279 g
Reihe: Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures
ISBN: 978-0-8203-1857-8
Verlag: University of Georgia Press
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.