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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prefatory poem: in a time of Zora / E. Ethelbert Miller -- To paint a woman black and female at the turn of the 20th century. Zora Neale Hurston : a black white-collar working woman / Piper G. Huguley-Riggins -- Zora Neale Hurston : pioneering social scientist / Lucy Anne Hurston -- Masculinity in Hurston's texts / Kersuze Simeon-Jones -- Hollywood wants a cracker : Zora Neale Hurston and studio narrative culture / Elizabeth Binggeli -- A renaissance woman : poetics, performance, photography, and film. Zora Neale Hurston's folk choreography / Anthea Kraut -- Modernist visions of "self" within community : Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God and James Van Der Zee's Home in Harlem photographs / Emily M. Hinnov -- Hurston, Toomer, and the dream of a negro theatre / John Lowe -- Zora Neale Hurston and the possibility of poetry / Phyllis McEwen -- A voice of the South. "Beholding 'A great tree in leaf'" : eros, nature, and the visionary in Their eyes were watching God / Gurleen Grewal -- Zora Neale Hurston : environmentalist in southern literature / Scott Hicks -- Narrative displacement : the symbolic burden of disability in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee / Michelle Jarman -- Zora Neale Hurston and the challenge of black Atlantic identity / Shirley Toland-Dix -- Premonition : peering through time and into Hurricane Katrina / Dawood H. Sultan and Deanna J. Wathington -- The legacy of Zora Neale Hurston in the 21st century. "That man in the gutter is the God-maker" : Zora Neale Hurston's philosophy of culture / Catherine A. John -- Dear Zora : letters from the new literati / Kendra Nicole Bryant -- Their eyes were watching God : the novel, the film--an interview with Valerie Boyd / Deborah G. Plant -- De-lionizing Zora Neale Hurston? / Linda Tavernier-Almada -- "A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him" : Hurston versus court-ordered school integration / Lynn Moylan -- The color line and the hem line : problem or promise of a post-racial, post-gendered America / A. Giselle Jones-Jones -- Organic universalism in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Joanne M. Braxton. |
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Hurston, Zora Neale -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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African Americans in literature.
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Folklore in literature.
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| Alt Author |
Plant, Deborah G., 1956-
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| Standard # |
9780313365171 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0313365172 |
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9780313365188 ebook |
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0313365180 ebook |
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