What we say, who we are : Leopold Senghor, Zora Neale Hurston, and the philosophy of language /
English, Parker.
Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-130) and index.
Senghor's discussion of negritude and Hurston's discussion of Negro expression -- Performism : a view gleaned from Senghor and from Hurston -- Performatives and reflexivity in light of Hurston's ethnography and fiction -- Exchanges of speech -- Speech and senses of self in Their eyes were watching God -- Performism in the world.
Senghor, Léopold Sédar, 1906-2001
Hurston, Zora Neale
Language and languages in literature.
Speech in literature.
Ethnology in literature.
Blacks