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Zora Neale Hurston: And A History Of Southern Life
Temple University Press, 2005 Cloth: 978-1-59213-289-8 | eISBN: 978-1-59213-776-3 | Paper: 978-1-59213-290-4 Library of Congress Classification PS3515.U789Z797 2005 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.52
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
A historian hoping to reconstruct the social world of all-black towns or the segregated black sections of other towns in the South finds only scant traces of their existence. In Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life, Tiffany Ruby Patterson uses the ethnographic and literary work of Zora Neale Hurston to augment the few official documents, newspaper accounts, and family records that pertain to these places hidden from history. Hurston's ethnographies, plays, and fiction focused on the day-to-day life in all-black social spaces as well as "the Negro farthest down" in labor camps. Patterson shows how Hurston's work complements the fragmented historical record, using the folklore and stories to provide a full description of these people of these towns as active human subjects, shaped by history and shaping their private world. Beyond the view and domination of whites in these spaces, black people created their own codes of social behavior, honor, and justice. In Patterson's view Hurston renders her subjects faithfully and with respect for their individuality and endurance, enabling all people to envision an otherwise inaccessible world. See other books on: African Americans in literature | Characters | Hurston, Zora Neale | Literature and folklore | Literature and history See other titles from Temple University Press |
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Zora Neale Hurston: And A History Of Southern Life
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Temple University Press, 2005
Cloth: 978-1-59213-289-8
eISBN: 978-1-59213-776-3
Paper: 978-1-59213-290-4
Cloth: 978-1-59213-289-8
eISBN: 978-1-59213-776-3
Paper: 978-1-59213-290-4
A historian hoping to reconstruct the social world of all-black towns or the segregated black sections of other towns in the South finds only scant traces of their existence. In Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life, Tiffany Ruby Patterson uses the ethnographic and literary work of Zora Neale Hurston to augment the few official documents, newspaper accounts, and family records that pertain to these places hidden from history. Hurston's ethnographies, plays, and fiction focused on the day-to-day life in all-black social spaces as well as "the Negro farthest down" in labor camps. Patterson shows how Hurston's work complements the fragmented historical record, using the folklore and stories to provide a full description of these people of these towns as active human subjects, shaped by history and shaping their private world. Beyond the view and domination of whites in these spaces, black people created their own codes of social behavior, honor, and justice. In Patterson's view Hurston renders her subjects faithfully and with respect for their individuality and endurance, enabling all people to envision an otherwise inaccessible world.
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