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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Description
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.”
Table of Contents
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 | Jan 07 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781666981742 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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