"""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 humor in her works helps explode this critical binary opposition. Specifically, the carnivalesque and the heteroglossia often subvert essentialist notions of (Black) identity.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Levecq, Christine

Contributors dc:contributor

• Baym, Nina

• Black Studies
• Folklore
• Literature, American

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1991 Levecq, Christine

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9210889
(UMI)AAI9210889

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/22809