Zora Neale Hurston
Subtitle: the breath of her voice
By: Ayana I. Karanja.
Series: African-American literary investigations,; vol. 1
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Hurston, Zora Neale -- Criticism and interpretation.; Literature and anthropology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; African Americans in literature.; African Americans -- Folklore.; Folklore in literature.
Description: "Filtered through black womanist perspectives, Zora Neale Hurston: The Breath of Her Voice breaks new ground through innovation and imagination, by fusing interpretive methods in ethnographic writing and literary studies. Intrinsically referencing contemporary epistemological issues in ethnographic writing and literary canonicity, Dr. Karanja illuminates fragments of Hurston's life through an exploration of her novels and folklore collections.

In doing so, she bridges disciplines to construct a postmodern text that "speaks" directly and formidably to oral literature and to the writer's and reader's collaboration in the production of textual meanings."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.