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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812697003321

Autore

Patterson Tiffany Ruby <1946->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-281-09365-3

9786611093655

1-59213-776-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Critical perspectives on the past

Disciplina

813.52

813/.52

Soggetti

African Americans - Southern States - Historiography

Literature and folklore - Southern States

Literature and history - Southern States

African Americans in literature

Southern States In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction: Rootedness-The History of Private Life; 1 Reconstructing Past Presents; 2 Portraits of the South: Zora Neale Hurston's Politics of Place; 3 A Place between Home and Horror; 4 Sex and Color in Eatonville, Florida; 5 A Transient World of Labor; 6 Patronage: Anatomy of a Predicament; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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. P