Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, 20th Century American Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, Women Authors - American (U.S.) - Literary Criticism, North American Folklore & Mythology, African Americans - General & Miscell
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Overview
Filtered through black womanist perspectives, Zora Neale Hurston: The breath of Her Voice breaks new ground through innovation and imagination, by fusing interpretive methods in ethnographic writing and literary studies. Intrinsically referencing contemporary epistemological issues in ethnographic writing and literary canonicity, Dr. Karanja illuminates fragments of Hurston's life through an exploration of her novels and folklore collections. In doing so, she bridges disciplines to construct a postmodern text that "speaks" directly and formidably to oral literature and to the writer's and reader's collaboration in the production of textual meanings.Editorials
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With essays, critiques, poems, meditations, and photographs, Karanja (sociology and anthropology, Loyola U., Chicago) reflects on the life and work of Hurston who during the 1920s and 1940s was a pioneer for African-American women with her ethnography, folklore, novels, and plays. She has not indexed her work. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
March 1, 2000
Publisher
New York : Peter Lang, c1999.
Pages
176
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780820428574