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Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston [Hardcover]

Deborah G. Plant (Author)

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Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press; First Edition edition (October 1, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0252021835
ISBN-13: 978-0252021831
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.9 inches
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The adjustments and adaptations Zora Neale Hurston made in her struggle against stereotypical images of her life as a poor, southern, African American woman create the discursive formation that marks her autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road, as a discourse of resistance. Read the first page

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African American, Dust Tracks, New Negro, Zora Neale Hurston, Big Sweet, Ole Massa, United States, Race Leaders, High John, Man of the Mountain, Old Testament, John Pearson, Jonah's Gourd Vine, Sanctified Church, John Hurston, Harlem Renaissance, Tea Cake, Alain Locke, Jim Meserve, Ruth Benedict, Darwin Turner, Jim Crow, Maria Stewart, Miss Hurston, Negro World

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Seraph on the Suwanee by Zora Neale Hurston on 18 pages
Moses, Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston on 17 pages
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston on 14 pages
Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston on 13 pages
The Sanctified Church: The Folklore Writings of Zora Neale Hurston by Zora Neale Hurston on 11 pages

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Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America (Cultural Margins) by Kenneth Mostern in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (The Greenwood Press "Literature in Context" Series) by Neal Lester on page 42, and Back Matter
Act Like You Know: African-American Autobiography and White Identity by Crispin Sartwell on page 137
Keeping up Her Geography: Women's Writing and Geocultural Space in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Tanya Ann Kennedy in Back Matter
Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (New Americanists) by Sharon Patricia Holland in Back Matter

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