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Author Freeman Marshall, Jennifer L

Title Ain't I an Anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon
Published Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (316 p.)
Series New Black Studies Ser
New Black Studies Ser
Contents Intro -- Cover Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Twice as Much Praise or Twice as Much Blame" -- On Canons -- "Zora": Iconic Folk Hero -- 1 On Firsts, Foremothers, and the "Walker Effect" -- 2 Signifying "Texts": The Race for Hurston -- Signifying Debates -- 3 Deconstructing an Icon: Tradition and Authority -- Zora Neale Hurston: Artifact and Theory -- 4 "Ain't I an Anthropologist?" -- "Partial Truths" and "Awkward," "Dangerous," "Cautious," "Dilemma[ed] Responses"
Histories and Hurston: Canon Making, "Transferences," and Erasures -- 5 Mules and Men: "Negro Folklore ... Is Still in the Making" -- 6 "Burning Spots": Reading Tell My Horse -- Epilogue: On Icons, Interdisciplines, and Communities -- Notes -- References -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Hurston, Zora Neale -- Criticism and interpretation
Hurston, Zora Neale -- Knowledge and learning
Anthropology.
anthropology.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780252054150
0252054156