Tracing southern storytelling in black and white / Sarah Gilbreath Ford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ford, Sarah Gilbreath, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Oral tradition.

American fiction--White authors.

Southern States.

American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.

American fiction--African American authors.

American fiction--White authors--History and criticism.

Storytelling in literature.

Oral tradition--Southern States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

158 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2014]

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index (pages [143]-153).

ISBN:

9780817318239

0817318232

OCLC:

870098630