Long past slavery : representing race in the Federal Writers' Project / Catherine A. Stewart.

Author: Stewart, Catherine A. author.

Imprint:Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

Descriptionxv, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Note:The passing away of the old-time Negro: folk culture, Civil War memory, and black authority in the 1930s -- Committing mayhem on the body grammatic: the Federal Writers' Project, the American guide, and representations of black identity -- Out of the mouths of slaves: the Ex-Slave Project and the "Negro question" -- Adventures of a ballad hunter: John Lomax and the pursuit of black folk culture -- The everybody who's nobody: black employees in the Federal Writers' Project -- Conjure queen: Zora Neale Hurston and black folk culture -- Follow me through Florida: Florida's Negro writers' unit, the Ex-Slave Project, and the Florida Negro -- Rewriting the master('s) narrative: signifying in the ex-slave narratives -- Freedom dreams: the last generation.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-334) and index.

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