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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Hurston, Zora Neale."”.
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Rereading Zora Neale Hurston through the lens of "What white publishers won't print".
During Zora Neale Hurston's life, she wrote many controversial statements on race. Scholars continually suggest that Hurston was merely pandering to the white nation or tricking her audience. By using Hurston's own explanation of "What White Publishers Won't Print," I examine the constraints and …
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(Re)covering lost lore : folklore adaptations in Zora Neale Hurston and Gloria Naylor.
… of marginalized cultures; for example both Zora Neale Hurston and Gloria Naylor, two prominent African American female authors, use folklore, their written literature. In doing so, both Hurston and Naylor recognize the value folklore has played in African American culture and they give voice …
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"""Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick"": Humor and the subversive in three novels by Zora Neale Hurston"
Zora Neale Hurston is a controversial figure, equally praised and criticized for her representation of African-Americans; while some critics emphasize her ebullience and celebration of Black culture, others call her fiction stereotypical and essentialist. Observing the workings of the recurrent …
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At the Crossroads: African American and Caribbean Writers in the Interwar Period
… Langston Hughes and Nicolás Guillén; and Zora Neale Hurston and Jean Price-Mars. I argue that these writers engage the concept of modernity precisely by turning to "imperial sites" that are conspicuously absent from dominant narratives of modern progress. With a sustained interest in the …
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Animals-as-Trope in the Selected Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison
… century African-American women writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison utilize animals-as-trope in order to illustrate the writers' humanity and literary vision. In the texts that I have selected, I have found that animals-as-trope functions in two important ways: the …