Zora Neale Hurston And A History Of Southern Life

Klappentext This book uses the ethnographic and literary work of Zora Neale Hurston to reconstruct the social world of all-black towns or segregated black sections of other towns in the South. Zusammenfassung Zora Neale Hurston's ethnographies, plays, and fiction focused on the day-to-day life in all-black social spaces and 'the Negro farthest down' in labor camps. This book shows how Hurston's work coincides with the historical record to demonstrate the extent to which folklore and stories provide an account of Black folk as active human subjects. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsPrologue; Introduction Rootedness: The History of Private Life; 1 Reconstructing "Past Presents"; 2 Portraits of the South: Zora Neale Hurston and the Politics of Place; 3 A Place Between Home and Horror; 4 Men and Women in a Settled Rural Community; 5 Men and Women Making Community in the Transient Labor World; 6 Patronage: Anatomy of a Predicament

Product details

• Authors: Tiffany Ruby Patterson
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2005
• EAN: 9781592132898
• ISBN: 978-1-59213-289-8
• No. of pages: 229
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Critical Perspectives On The P; Critical Perspectives on the P
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Englisch, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren