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- catalog abstract "In ways that are highly individual, says Harris, yet still within a shared oral tradition, Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan skillfully use storytelling techniques to define their audiences, reach out and draw them in, and fill them with anticipation. Considering how such dynamics come into play in Hurston's Mules and Men, Naylor's Mama Day, and Kenan's Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, Harris shows how the "power of the porch" resides in readers as well, who, in giving themselves over to a story, confer it on the writer. Against this background of give and take, anticipation and fulfillment, Harris considers Zora Neale Hurston's special challenges as a black woman writer in the thirties, and how her various roles as an anthropologist, folklorist, and novelist intermingle in her work. In Gloria Naylor's writing, Harris finds particularly satisfying themes and characters. A New York native, Naylor came to a knowledge of the South through her parents and during her stay on the Sea Islands she wrote Mama Day. A southerner by birth, Randall Kenan is particularly adept in getting his readers to accept aspects of African American culture that their rational minds might have wanted to reject. Although Kenan is set apart from Hurston and Naylor by his alliances with a new generation of writers intent upon broaching certain taboo subjects (in his case gay life in small southern towns), Kenan's Tims Creek is as rife with the otherworldly and the fantastic as Hurston's New Orleans and Naylor's Willow Springs.".
- catalog contributor b10272452.
- catalog coverage "Southern States In literature.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "In ways that are highly individual, says Harris, yet still within a shared oral tradition, Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan skillfully use storytelling techniques to define their audiences, reach out and draw them in, and fill them with anticipation. Considering how such dynamics come into play in Hurston's Mules and Men, Naylor's Mama Day, and Kenan's Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, Harris shows how the "power of the porch" resides in readers as well, who, in giving themselves over to a story, confer it on the writer. Against this background of give and take, anticipation and fulfillment, Harris considers Zora Neale Hurston's special challenges as a black woman writer in the thirties, and how her various roles as an anthropologist, folklorist, and novelist intermingle in her work. In Gloria Naylor's writing, Harris finds particularly satisfying themes and characters. A New York native, Naylor came to a knowledge of the South through her parents and during her stay on the Sea Islands she wrote Mama Day. A southerner by birth, Randall Kenan is particularly adept in getting his readers to accept aspects of African American culture that their rational minds might have wanted to reject. Although Kenan is set apart from Hurston and Naylor by his alliances with a new generation of writers intent upon broaching certain taboo subjects (in his case gay life in small southern towns), Kenan's Tims Creek is as rife with the otherworldly and the fantastic as Hurston's New Orleans and Naylor's Willow Springs.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-147) and index.".
- catalog description "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".".
- catalog extent "xiv, 152 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0820318574 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures ; no. 39".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Athens : University of Georgia Press,".
- catalog spatial "Southern States In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States".
- catalog spatial "Southern States.".
- catalog subject "813/.509896073 20".
- catalog subject "African American oral tradition Southern States.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Southern States Folklore.".
- catalog subject "African Americans in literature.".
- catalog subject "American fiction African American authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American fiction Southern States History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Hurston, Zora Neale Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Kenan, Randall Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Literature and folklore Southern States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Literature and folklore Southern States.".
- catalog subject "Narration (Rhetoric) History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Narration (Rhetoric)".
- catalog subject "Naylor, Gloria Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Oral tradition Southern States.".
- catalog subject "PS374.N4 H35 1996".
- catalog subject "Storytelling in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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".".
- catalog title "The power of the porch : the storyteller's craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan / Trudier Harris.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "Folklore. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".