Ain't I an anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston: Beyond the literary icon

"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...

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Main Author: Freeman Marshall, Jennifer L. 1968- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield University of Illinois Press [2023]
Series:The> new Black studies series
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:xiii, 252 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm
ISBN:9780252087103
9780252044960

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