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The Politics of Fiction, Anthropology, and the Folk Zora Neale Hurston
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Abstract
The work of Zora Neale Hurston, in particular the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, has been the object of more than a decade of critical attention. But, in addition to the critical consideration of Hurston’s writings, her work has received the level of institutional support necessary for Hurston to enter the American literary mainstream. Two examples of this support would be the special Hurston seminar held at the Modern Language Association annual conference in 1975 and the award of two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to Robert Hemenway to write Hurston’s biography.
Oxford University PressNew York, NY
Title: The Politics of Fiction, Anthropology, and the Folk Zora Neale Hurston
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Abstract
The work of Zora Neale Hurston, in particular the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, has been the object of more than a decade of critical attention.
But, in addition to the critical consideration of Hurston’s writings, her work has received the level of institutional support necessary for Hurston to enter the American literary mainstream.
Two examples of this support would be the special Hurston seminar held at the Modern Language Association annual conference in 1975 and the award of two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to Robert Hemenway to write Hurston’s biography.
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