The Inside Light: New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston
by Plant, Deborah G.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-05-20
Publisher(s): Greenwood Pub Group
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Summary
This exploration of Zora Neale Hurston's life and work draws on a wealth of newly discovered information and manuscripts that bring new dimensions of her writing to light.
Author Biography
Deborah G. Plant is associate professor and chair of the Department of Africana Studies at the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL. She is the author of Every Tub Must Sit On Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neals Hurston and Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| Prefatory Poem: In a Time Zora | p. xvii |
| To Paint a Woman Black and Female at the Turn of the 20th Century? | |
| Zora Neale Hurston: A Black White-Collar Working Woman | p. 3 |
| Zora Neale Hurston: Pioneering Social Scientist | p. 15 |
| Masculinity in Hurston's Texts | p. 23 |
| Hollywood Wants a Cracker: Zora Neale Hurston and Studio Narrative Culture | p. 33 |
| A Renaissance Woman: Poetics, Performance, Photography, and Film? | |
| Zora Neale Hurston's Folk Choreography | p. 53 |
| Modernist Visions of"Self"within Community: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and James Van Der Zee's Home in Harlem Photographs | p. 65 |
| Hurston, Toomer, and the Dream of a Negro Theatre | p. 79 |
| Zora Neale Hurston and the Possibility of Poetry | p. 93 |
| A Voice of the South? | |
| "Beholding'A Great Tree in Leaf": Eros, Nature, and the Visionary in Their Eyes Were Watching God | p. 103 |
| Zora Neale Hurston: Environmentalist in Southern Literature | p. 113 |
| Narrative Displacement: The Symbolic Burden of Disability in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee | p. 127 |
| Zora Neale Hurston and the Challenge of Black Atlantic Identity | p. 139 |
| Premonition: Peering through Time and into Hurricane Katrina | p. 153 |
| The Legacy of Zora Neale Hurston in the 21st Century? | |
| "That Man in the Gutter Is the God-Maker": Zora Neale Hurston's Philosophy of Culture | p. 165 |
| Dear Zora: Letters from the New Literati | p. 181 |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God: The Novel, the Film-An Interview with Valerie Boyd | p. 197 |
| De-Lionizing Zora Neale Hurston? | p. 203 |
| "A Child Cannot Be Taught by Anyone Who Despises Him": Hurston versus Court-Ordered School Integration | p. 215 |
| The Color Line and the Hem Line: Problem or Promise of a Post-Racial, Post-Gendered America | p. 225 |
| Organic Universalism in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God | p. 239 |
| Conclusion | p. 255 |
| Afterword: We Be Theorizin | p. 263 |
| Index | p. 267 |
| About the Editor and Contributors | p. 279 |
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