The book investigates African American writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston s cultural space. More specifically, different aspects of the interplay of space and place are studied in two of her novels: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) and Jonah s Gourd Vine (1934). Besides representing the peak of her art as a novelist, the novels present fine examples of her philosophy of culture, her conceptions of space, and ways of place construction. The richness and vitality of her novels denote a particular view of culture and an African American way of authentication that...
The book investigates African American writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston s cultural space. More specifically, different aspects of the inte...
