| Zora Neale Hurston: And a History of Southern Life Contributor(s): Patterson, Tiffany Ruby (Author) |
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ISBN: 1592132898 ISBN-13: 9781592132898 Publisher: Temple University Press OUR PRICE: $72.68 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2005 Annotation: This book uses the ethnographic and literary work of Zora Neale Hurston to reconstruct the social world of all-black towns or segregated black sections of other towns in the South. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 813.52 |
| LCCN: 2004058855 |
| Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.64" W x 8.52" (0.81 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - South - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A historian hoping to reconstruct the social world of all-black towns or the segregated black sections of other towns in the South finds only scant traces of their existence. In Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life, Tiffany Ruby Patterson uses the ethnographic and literary work of Zora Neale Hurston to augment the few official documents, newspaper accounts, and family records that pertain to these places hidden from history. Hurston's ethnographies, plays, and fiction focused on the day-to-day life in all-black social spaces as well as the Negro farthest down in labor camps. Patterson shows how Hurston's work complements the fragmented historical record, using the folklore and stories to provide a full description of these people of these towns as active human subjects, shaped by history and shaping their private world. Beyond the view and domination of whites in these spaces, black people created their own codes of social behavior, honor, and justice. In Patterson's view Hurston renders her subjects faithfully and with respect for their individuality and endurance, enabling all people to envision an otherwise inaccessible world. |