![]() ![]() ![]() Written in a variety of Southern black dialects, the stories range from a few paragraphs each to several pages, and cover a range of topics. Unlike Hamilton who compiled her stories as retellings in her own voice, Hurston’s stories are all written down exactly as she heard them. Hurston understood that, and for that reason her anthropological collection of folk tales is truly something to behold. That’s the beauty of black oral storytelling each story is unique to the person who tells it. The beats might remain the same - but it wouldn’t really be the story we've come to love. Imagine if someone wrote down Tiffany Haddish’s hilarious swamp tour story for publication, but in the process “fixed” the grammar, phrasing, and added in some flourishes of their own for creative effect. ![]()
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