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9781592132898

Zora Neale Hurston And A History Of Southern Life

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    9781592132898

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    1592132898

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-06-01
  • Publisher: Temple Univ Pr

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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 [title] 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 coincides with the fragmented historical record to demonstrate the extent to which the folklore and stories provide a plausible account of these Black folk as active human subjects, shaped by history and shaping their private world. Beyond the view and domination of whites in these spaces, they created their own codes of social behavior, honor, and justice. In Patterson's view Hurston did not demean her subjects or caricature them; she rendered them faithfully and with respect for their individuality and endurance. In so doing, she enabled us to envision a world that otherwise would have been inaccessible.

Author Biography

Tiffany Ruby Patterson teaches history and Africana studies at Hamilton College and is associate editor of Black Women in United States History, a sixteen-volume series.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. vii
Prologuep. 1
Introduction: Rootedness-The History of Private Lifep. 5
Reconstructing Past Presentsp. 19
Portraits of the South: Zora Neale Hurston's Politics of Placep. 32
A Place between Home and Horrorp. 50
Sex and Color in Eatonville, Floridap. 90
A Transient World of Laborp. 128
Patronage: Anatomy of a Predicamentp. 159
Epiloguep. 183
Notesp. 185
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