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    The Mimicking of Oral Traditions in African American Literature

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    Author
    Johnson, Lauren
    Abstract
    The authors Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Randall Kenan create a authentic listener experience through the use of literary features that mimic oral tradition in African American culture. The "authentic listener experience" is the purposeful drawing of the reader into the shoes of an African American, rural, twentieth-century, active participant listener regardless of where the reader stands. In essence, instead of reading the reader is invited to eavesdrop on various stories being told within these novels. This is done by using techniques such as the re-creation and verbal illustration of the porch scene in the African American novel, the use of songs, multiple versions of stories, rumors, the supernatural, and interruptions.  
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3983
    Subject
     American literature; African American studies; African Americans; Language; Orality; Tradition 
    Date
    2012
    Citation:
    APA:
    Johnson, Lauren. (January 2012). The Mimicking of Oral Traditions in African American Literature (Master's Thesis, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship. (http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3983.)

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    Johnson, Lauren. The Mimicking of Oral Traditions in African American Literature. Master's Thesis. East Carolina University, January 2012. The Scholarship. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3983. March 04, 2021.
    Chicago:
    Johnson, Lauren, “The Mimicking of Oral Traditions in African American Literature” (Master's Thesis., East Carolina University, January 2012).
    AMA:
    Johnson, Lauren. The Mimicking of Oral Traditions in African American Literature [Master's Thesis]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University; January 2012.
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    • English
    • Master's Theses
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    East Carolina University

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