Zora Neale Hurston and a history of southern life / Tiffany Ruby Patterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patterson, Tiffany Ruby, 1946-

Series:

Critical perspectives on the past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hurston, Zora Neale--Characters--African Americans.

Hurston, Zora Neale.

African Americans--Southern States--Historiography.

African Americans.

Hurston, Zora Neale--Knowledge and learning--Southern States.

Literature and history.

Literature and folklore.

Historiography.

Southern States.

Literature and folklore--Southern States.

Literature and history--Southern States.

Southern States--In literature.

African Americans in literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 229 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2005.

Contents:

Introduction: Rootedness-The History of Private Life 5

1 Reconstructing Past Presents 19

2 Portraits of the South: Zora Neale Hurston's Politics of Place 32

3 A Place between Home and Horror 50

4 Sex and Color in Eatonville, Florida 90

5 A Transient World of Labor 128

6 Patronage: Anatomy of a Predicament 159.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-216) and index.

ISBN:

1592132898

1592132901

OCLC:

56517942