Zora Neale Hurston - A Biography of the Spirit

Informationen zum Autor Deborah G. Plant is associate professor and chair of the Department of Africana Studies at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. She is author of Every Tub Must Sit on its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston. Klappentext The author of such great works as Their Eyes Were Watching God, Moses, Man of the Mountain, Jonah's Gourd Vine, Mules and Men, as well as essays, folklore, short stories, poetry, and more, Zora Neale Hurston is regarded as one of the pillars of the Harlem Renaissance, as well as one of the most important and influential African American writers of the past century. Here, Plant offers a biography of the literary master that takes her spirituality into account in both her life and her works in order to shape a fuller picture of the woman, the writer, the philosopher, and the spirit that animated this gifted American author. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Series Foreword 2 Introduction 3 One: The Essence of Things 4 Two: The Pathless Path 5 Three: ''A Genius of the South'': An American Genius 6 Four: ''Coming Out More Than Conquer'': Spirituality, Empowerment, Freedom, and Peace 7 Five: Who Was Herod and What Made Him Great? 8 Six: Ancestral Spirit 9 Conclusion: Sankofa

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• Autori: Deborah Plant, Deborah G Plant, Deborah G. Plant, Plant Deborah G.
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 16.01.2011
• EAN: 9781442206120
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-0612-0
• Pagine: 262
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, Biography: writers, African American History;Women's History