The Power of the Porch: The Storyteller's Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan - Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures

Southern literature is often celebrated for its “told,” rather than “written,” qualities. Drawing on her own experiences of front-porch storytelling among family, friends, and neighbors, Trudier Harris looks across the generations of twentieth-century southern writers to focus on three African Americans who possess the “power of the porch.”