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Beschreibung
"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"--
"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"--
Über den Autor
Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall is an associate professor in the Department of English and Interdisciplinary Studies at Purdue University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments

Introduction: “Twice as Much Praise or Twice as Much Blame”

  1. On Firsts, Foremothers, and “The Walker Effect”
  2. Signifying “Texts”: The Race for Hurston
  3. Deconstructing an Icon: Tradition and Authority
  4. “Ain’t I an Anthropologist?”
  5. Mules and Men: “Negro folklore [. . .] is still in the making”
  6. The author arrives at no conclusion”? Reading Tell My Horse
Notes

Works Cited

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: New Black Studies Series
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780252087103
ISBN-10: 0252087100
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Freeman Marshall, Jennifer L.
Auflage: New
Hersteller: University of Illinois Press
New Black Studies Series
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße: 228 x 153 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.02.2023
Gewicht: 0,436 kg
Artikel-ID: 121662478

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