RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Zora Neale Hurston's experimentation with the narrative voice in her short stories A1 Fraile, Ana María K1 Historia de América K1 America-History K1 Filología K1 Philology AB Literary critics such as Henry Louis Gates and Barbara Johnson have alreadyapproached the issue of voice in Zora Neale Hurston's novels-especially in Their Eyes Were Watching God. However, little attention has been directed to her short stories, despite the fact that they constitute an excellent ground to study the evolution of her narrative technique when considered chronologically. This paper responds to the need to fill that gap.I will show that between 1921 and 1942 Hurston creates successive narrative voices whose differentiating trait is the gradual approach to and eventual identification with the language of the folk. In doing so Hurston demonstrated that it was viable for the Afro-American writer to acknowledge the folkloric oral tradition as the foundation of a genuine Afro-American written tradition. PB Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Servicio de Publicaciones YR 1997 FD 1997 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/4985 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/4985 LA eng DS MINDS@UW RD 28-mar-2024