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

• Autore: Patterson Tiffany Ruby <1946->
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 813.52; 813/.52
• Soggetto topico: African Americans - Southern States - Historiography; Literature and folklore - Southern States; Literature and history - Southern States; African Americans in literature
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States In literature
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Zora Neale Hurston
• ISBN: 1-281-09365-3; 9786611093655; 1-59213-776-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812697003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical perspectives on the past.