Zora Neale Hurston: And A History Of Southern Life by Tiffany Ruby Patterson
Uses the ethnographic and literary work of Hurston to augment the few official documents and family records to reconstruct the social world of all-black towns
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston
Summary
Zora Neale Hurston's ethnographies, plays, and fiction focused on the day-to-day life in all-black social spaces and 'the Negro farthest down' in labor camps. This book shows how Hurston's work coincides with the historical record to demonstrate the extent to which folklore and stories provide an account of Black folk as active human subjects.
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In this smart, well-written study of the brilliant, free-spirited writer of Harlem Renaissance renown, Zora Neale Huston, historian Tiffany Patterson deepens our understanding of the, often unexplored, interior lives and culture of residents of early 20th century southern black communities. This is a gem of a book! Tiffany Patterson adroitly captures and illuminates the fascinating complexity of Hurston and the places she represented, inhabited, and imagined.-Darlene Clark Hine, editor, Black Women in America 3 Volumes, Revised and Expanded Edition Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life is a blockbuster book which gracefully and convincingly challenges established views of Hurston and her region. Especially impressive is the placing of Hurston's life, fiction, and folklore within the history of all-black towns, maroon societies, and nationalist traditions. Patterson portrays a cultural naturalism not obsessed with whites at every turn, and expressive of both love and gender conflict, unity and class/color tension. This book's achievement far transcends the recovery of new sources and hinges on an ability to deploy those sources in a way that makes new our understanding of Hurston, and of the early twentieth century rural south.-David Roediger, University of Illinois, and author of Working Toward Whiteness Enthusiasts for the work of Zora Neale Hurston will not be disappointed in Tiffany Ruby Patterson's excellent study of Hurston's work... her precise recasting of history through the eyes of one of our most careful observers is a book that never fails to inform or delight... This is a valuable and long-overdue addition to scholarship on Hurston and black life in the South.-Black Issues Book Review
About Tiffany Ruby Patterson
Tiffany Ruby Patterson teaches History and Africana Studies at Hamilton College and is Associate Editor of Black Women in United States History, a 16 volume series.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsPrologueIntroduction: Rootedness-The History of Private Life1. Reconstructing Past Presents2. Portraits of the South: Zora Neale Hurston's Politics of Place3. A Place between Home and Horror4. Sex and Color in Eatonville, Florida5. A Transient World of Labor6. Patronage: Anatomy of a PredicamentEpilogueNotesIndexPhoto gallery follows page 112
Additional information
CIN1592132901G
9781592132904
1592132901
Zora Neale Hurston: And A History Of Southern Life by Tiffany Ruby Patterson
Used - Good
Paperback
Temple University Press,U.S.
20050609
248
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