Zora Neale Hurston's Literary and Cultural Influence
Watching Words, Shaping Worlds
Zora Neale Hurston's Literary and Cultural Influence
Watching Words, Shaping Worlds
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This collection of essays analyzes Zora Neale Hurston's impact as a literary and cultural influence.
The essays demonstrate a sweeping range in topics, from Hurston as a progenitor of literary humor and satire in African American literatureto her influence on pedagogy and original interpretations of her folktales and other works like “Sweat” and “Drenched in Light.”
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About the Editors and Contributors
Introduction
1. Their Eyes were Watching Zora: How Expansive Ancestral Listening Leads to Self-Love and Self-Acceptance
Rae Chesny (Independent Scholar)
2. Fieldwork as Story, Story as Fieldwork: Hurston's Contributions to Multimodal Methodologies
Marina Del Sol (Howard University, USA)
3. Pandemic Pedagogy: Teaching the Life and Work of Zora Neale Hurston in the South Bronx During Covid-19 and Beyond
Anamaría Flores (Hostos Community College-CUNY, USA)
4. Madness and Play in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men
Regis M. Fox (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
5. Zora Neale Hurston and William Grant Still's Caribbean Melodies: Tracing a Literary-Musical Collaboration
Bianca Jackson (Alcorn State University)
6. Obligatory and Alternative Sights/Sites: Gaze, Desire, and the Constraints of the Politics of Respectability in Jessie Fauset's There is Confusion and Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine
Lauren Johnson (Northwestern University, USA)
7. blackplay(s) Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Poetics: The Intertextuality of Zora Neale Hurston within the 21st-Century Black Creative
Johnny Jones (Simmons College of Kentucky, USA)
8. (Re)claiming Possibilities and Delights: A Comment on Zora Neale Hurston's “Drenched in Light”
Alison D. Ligon (Morehouse College, USA)
9. Secrets of the Suwanee: Zora Neale Hurston and the Coded Word
Alice Nicholas (California State University, Long Beach, USA)
Index
Introduction
1. Their Eyes were Watching Zora: How Expansive Ancestral Listening Leads to Self-Love and Self-Acceptance
Rae Chesny (Independent Scholar)
2. Fieldwork as Story, Story as Fieldwork: Hurston's Contributions to Multimodal Methodologies
Marina Del Sol (Howard University, USA)
3. Pandemic Pedagogy: Teaching the Life and Work of Zora Neale Hurston in the South Bronx During Covid-19 and Beyond
Anamaría Flores (Hostos Community College-CUNY, USA)
4. Madness and Play in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men
Regis M. Fox (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
5. Zora Neale Hurston and William Grant Still's Caribbean Melodies: Tracing a Literary-Musical Collaboration
Bianca Jackson (Alcorn State University)
6. Obligatory and Alternative Sights/Sites: Gaze, Desire, and the Constraints of the Politics of Respectability in Jessie Fauset's There is Confusion and Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine
Lauren Johnson (Northwestern University, USA)
7. blackplay(s) Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Poetics: The Intertextuality of Zora Neale Hurston within the 21st-Century Black Creative
Johnny Jones (Simmons College of Kentucky, USA)
8. (Re)claiming Possibilities and Delights: A Comment on Zora Neale Hurston's “Drenched in Light”
Alison D. Ligon (Morehouse College, USA)
9. Secrets of the Suwanee: Zora Neale Hurston and the Coded Word
Alice Nicholas (California State University, Long Beach, USA)
Index
Product details
| Published | 10 Dec 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781978759299 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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