ISBN:
9780252044960
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9780252087103
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 252 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
The new Black studies series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Freeman Marshall, Jennifer L., 1968- Ain't I an anthropologist
Keywords:
Hurston, Zora Neale Criticism and interpretation
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Hurston, Zora Neale Knowledge and learning
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Anthropology
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Anthropologie
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black
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Hurston, Zora Neale 1891-1960
Abstract:
"Iconic as a novelist and popular cultural figure, Zora Neale Hurston remains underappreciated as an anthropologist. Is it inevitable that Hurston's literary authority should eclipse her anthropological authority? If not, what sociocultural and institutional values and processes shape the different ways we read her work? Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall considers the polar receptions to two of Hurston's areas of achievement by examining the critical response to her work across both fields. Drawing on a wide range of readings, Freeman Marshall explores Hurston's popular appeal as iconography, her elevation into the literary canon, her concurrent marginalization in anthropology despite her significant contributions, and her place within constructions of Black feminist literary traditions. Perceptive and original, Ain't I an Anthropologist is a long-awaited reassessment of Zora Neale Hurston's place in American cultural and intellectual life"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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