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Tracing Southern storytelling in black and white

Title
Tracing Southern storytelling in black and white / Sarah Gilbreath Ford.
Author
Ford, Sarah Gilbreath, 1968-
Publication
Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2014.

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Description
158 pages; 24 cm
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.
Subject
  • American fiction > Southern States > History and criticism
  • American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism
  • American fiction > White authors > History and criticism
  • Storytelling in literature
  • Oral tradition > Southern States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-153).
Contents
Introduction: intertwining strings -- Getting the joke: Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus: his songs and sayings and Charles Chesnutt's The conjure woman -- Paradise disrupted: William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God -- Getting the last laugh: Ralph Ellison's Invisible man and Eudora Welty's Losing battles -- Haunted by stories: Ernest Gaines's A gathering of old men and Ellen Douglas's Can't quit you, baby -- Epilogue.
Call Number
Sc E 14-1479
ISBN
  • 9780817318239
  • 0817318232
  • 9780817387464 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2014000538
OCLC
870098630
Author
Ford, Sarah Gilbreath, 1968- author.
Title
Tracing Southern storytelling in black and white / Sarah Gilbreath Ford.
Publisher
Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2014.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-153).
Research Call Number
Sc E 14-1479
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