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Title Zora in Florida / edited by Steve Glassman and Kathryn Lee Seidel
Published Orlando : University of Central Florida Press, ©1991

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 197 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction / Steve Glassman and Kathryn Lee Seidel -- Flora and fauna in Hurston's Florida novels / Ann R. Morris and Margaret M. Dunn -- Excursions into Zora Neale Hurston's Eatonville / Anna Lillios -- Beginning to see things really : the politics of Zora Neale Hurston / David Headon -- Through the prism of Africanity : a preliminary investigation of Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men / Beulah S. Hemmingway -- A literary reading of Mules and men, part I / Dana McKinnon Preu -- Subversive female folk tellers in Mules and men / Mary Katherine Wainwright -- 'De beast' within : the role of nature in Jonah's gourd vine / Alan Brown -- Voodoo as symbol in Jonah's gourd vine / Barbara Speisman -- The shape of Hurston's fiction / Rosalie Murphy Baum -- The artist in the kitchen : the economics of creativity in Hurston's 'Sweat' / Kathryn Lee Seidel -- Hurston as dramatist : the Florida connection / Warren J. Carson -- Zora Neale Hurston at Rollins College / Maurice J. O'Sullivan, Jr., and Jack C. Lane -- Adaptation of the source : ethnocentricity / and 'The Florida negro' / Christopher D. Felker -- Text and personality in disguise and in the open : Zora Neale Hurston's Dust tracks on a road / Kathleen Hassall -- Three legal entangelments of Zora Neale Hurston / Kevin M. McCarthy
Summary Annotation Following years of neglect, Zora Neale Hurstons status in American letters is restored: she is now recognized as one of the foremost African-American writers of the twentieth centuryan artist of the Harlem Renaissance and a native Florida writer. Zora in Florida focuses on the place that nurtured and inspired her work, the frontier wilderness of central Florida and the all-black town of Eatonville.<br />
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-188) and index
Notes English
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Subject Hurston, Zora Neale -- Knowledge -- Florida
Hurston, Zora Neale -- Knowledge -- Folklore
SUBJECT Hurston, Zora Neale fast
Subject Literature and folklore -- Florida -- History -- 20th century
Women and literature -- Florida -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Florida -- Folklore
African Americans in literature.
Folklore -- Florida
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
African Americans
African Americans in literature
Folklore
Literature
Literature and folklore
Women and literature
SUBJECT Florida -- In literature
Subject Florida
Genre/Form Folklore
History
Form Electronic book
Author Glassman, Steve
Seidel, Kathryn Lee
ISBN 0813019621
9780813019628