Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : race and gender in the work of Zora Neale Hurston
Title:
Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : race and gender in the work of Zora Neale Hurston
Author:
Meisenhelder, Susan Edwards, 1951-
Personal Author:
Edition:
First paperbound printing.
Publication Information:
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2001.
©1999
Physical Description:
258 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
Originally published: c1999.
Language:
English
Contents:
"Fractious" mules and covert resistance in Mules and men -- "Natural men" and "pagan poesy" in Jonah's gourd vine -- "Mink skin or coon hide": the Janus-faced narrative of Their eyes were watching God -- The ways of white folks in Seraph on the Suwanee -- "Crossing over" and "heading back": Black cultural freedom in Moses, man of the mountain -- "With a harp and a sword in my hand": Black female identity in Dust tracks on a road -- The "trials" of Black women in the 1950s: Ruby McCollum and Laura Lee Kimble.
Personal Subject:
ISBN:
9780817311315
Format :
Book
