Contributor
Plant, Deborah G., 1956-
Imprint:Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, 2010.
Descriptionxvi, 282 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Prefatory poem: in a time of Zora / E. Ethlebert Miller -- To paint a woman black and female at the turn of the 20th Century, Zora Neale Hurston: A black white-collar working woman / Piper G. Huguley -- Pioneering social scientist / Lucy Anne Hurston -- Masculinity in Hurston's texts / Kersuze Simeon-Jones -- Hollywood wants a cracker: Zora Neale Hurston and studio narrative culture / Elizabeth Binggeli -- A renaissance woman: poetics, performance, photography, and film: Zora Neale Hurston's folk choreography / Anthea Kraut -- 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 / Emily M. Hinnov -- Hurston, Toomer, and the dream of a negro theatre / John Lowe -- Zora Neale Hurston and the possibility of poetry / Phyllis McEwen -- A voice of the south, beholding a great tree in leaf: Eros, nature, and the visionary in Their Eyes Were Watching God / Gurleen Grewal -- Zora Neale Hurston: environmentalist in southern literature / Scott Hicks -- Narrative displacement: the symbolic burden of disability in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee / Michelle Jarman -- Zora Neale Hurston and the challenge of black Atlantic identity / Shirley Toland-Dix -- Premonition: peering through time and into Hurricane Katrina / Dawood Sultan and Deanna Wathington -- The legacy of Zora Neale Hurston in the 21st century -- The man in the gutter is the god-maker: Zora Neale Hurston's Philosophy of Culture / Catherine A. John -- Dear Zora: letters from the new literati / Kendra Nicole Bryant -- Their Eyes Were Watching God: the novel, the film "An Interview with Valerie Boyd De-Lionizing Zora Neale Hurston" / Linda Tavernier-Almada -- A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him / Lynn Moylan -- The color line and the hem line: problem or promise of a post-racial, post-gendered America / A. Giselle Jones-Jones -- Organic universalism in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" / Joanne M. Braxton.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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