03229nam 2200637 450 991046003160332120200520144314.00-8173-8746-3(CKB)3710000000238824(EBL)1788937(OCoLC)890983527(SSID)ssj0001266385(PQKBManifestationID)11728377(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001266385(PQKBWorkID)11250247(PQKB)10068133(MiAaPQ)EBC1788937(MdBmJHUP)muse32953(Au-PeEL)EBL1788937(CaPaEBR)ebr10932060(EXLCZ)99371000000023882420140924h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTracing Southern storytelling in black and white /Sarah Gilbreath Ford ; cover design, Mary Elizabeth WatsonTuscaloosa, Alabama :The University Alabama Press,2014.©20141 online resource (169 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-1823-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.<div>In <i>Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White</i>, 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.<br><br><i>Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White</i> 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 conflueAmerican fictionSouthern StatesHistory and criticismAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fictionWhite authorsHistory and criticismStorytelling in literatureOral traditionSouthern StatesElectronic books.American fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionWhite authorsHistory and criticism.Storytelling in literature.Oral tradition813.009/975Ford Sarah Gilbreath1968-1031887MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460031603321Tracing Southern storytelling in black and white2449428UNINA