Truth in Dialect
The Dead Alligator on Gunther Road
My greatest thanks to Toni Morrison for her powerful Nobel Lecture in December of 1993 on language. As her old blind woman scenario of the bird in hand states, "I don't know if the bird is dead or alive but I do know the bird is in your hands". I wrote The Dead Alligator on Gunther Road without hindrance in my character's voice and the history of language true to my own tongue. The dialect and narrative of this story was placed in my hands to deliver either dead or alive.
Delores Cremm
My greatest thanks to Toni Morrison for her powerful Nobel Lecture in December of 1993 on language. As her old blind woman scenario of the bird in hand states, "I don't know if the bird is dead or alive but I do know the bird is in your hands". I wrote The Dead Alligator on Gunther Road without hindrance in my character's voice and the history of language true to my own tongue. The dialect and narrative of this story was placed in my hands to deliver either dead or alive.
Delores Cremm
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