In a ground-breaking study of Zora Neale Hurston, Deborah Plant takes issue with current notions of Hurston as a feminist and earlier impressions of her as an intellectual lightweight who disregarded serious issues of race in American culture. Instead, Plant calls Hurston a writer of resistance who challenged the politics of domination both in her life and in her work. One of the great geniuses of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston stands out as a strong voice for African American women. Her anthropological inquiries as well as her evocative prose provide today's readers with a rich history of...
In a ground-breaking study of Zora Neale Hurston, Deborah Plant takes issue with current notions of Hurston as a feminist and earlier impressions of h...
This new biography takes into account the whole woman--not just the prolific author of such great works as "Their Eyes Were Watching God," "Moses, Man of the Mountain," "Jonah's Gourd Vine," "Mules and Men," as well as essays, folklore, short stories, and poetry--but the philosopher and the spiritual soul, examining how each is reflected in her career, fiction and nonfiction publications, social and political activity, and, ultimately, her death.
When we ask what animated the woman who achieved all that she did, we must necessarily probe further. Not one of the other existing...
This new biography takes into account the whole woman--not just the prolific author of such great works as "Their Eyes Were Watching God," "Moses, ...
During the last two decades, African American writers have emerged as a distinct and dominant force in world literature. This force has been gathering momentum since the 1950s, when James Baldwin published some of his most compelling works and Ralph Ellison stunned the literary establishment with his dazzling "Invisible Man" (1952). Empowered by the Civil Rights Movement and revitalized by the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, this force became more potent and pervasive. The publication of Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" in 1970 was a major event in the literary history of the United...
During the last two decades, African American writers have emerged as a distinct and dominant force in world literature. This force has been gather...
""The Inside Light" New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston" caps a decade of resurgent popularity and critical interest in Hurston to offer the most insightful critical analysis of her work to date. Encompassing all of Hurston's writings--fiction, folklore manuscripts, drama, correspondence--it fully reaffirms the legacy of this phenomenal writer, whom "The Color Purple"'s Alice Walker called "A Genius of the South."
""The Inside Light"" offers 20 critical essays covering the breadth of Hurston's writing, including her poetry, which up to now has received little attention. Essays...
""The Inside Light" New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston" caps a decade of resurgent popularity and critical interest in Hurston to offer the ...
Born in Eatonton, GA, in 1944, a daughter of sharecroppers, Alice Walker has lived a remarkable and courageous life, and she continues to do so as an elder. Taking inspiration from her great-great-great-great grandmother who lived enslaved in the American South and died at age 125, Walker's activism stems from a philosophy that embraces all life and expresses itself through courageous truth-telling, a resolute stand for freedom, and radical love.
Alice Walker: A Woman for Our Times offers a full examination of the intellectual underpinnings of Walker's life and her...
Born in Eatonton, GA, in 1944, a daughter of sharecroppers, Alice Walker has lived a remarkable and courageous life, and she continues to do so as ...
