Amid the jealousy and politics, she runs -- Finding a ship in Daytona: "It's almost ceremonial" -- Seeing "diffused pinkness": what more could she want? -- The two who were duped but resisted expectation -- Healing in Miami before a failed return -- Take it you're American.
Summary:
"The author recovers an understudied but important period in Zora Neale Hurston's life: her 1947-48 stay in Honduras. Hurston - an anthropologist by training - was officially searching for a "lost" Maya ruin. But the author argues that Hurston was also engaged in a much more personal project: in escaping the Jim Crow south to Central America, she was able to sidestep wearying conversations about race in the United States, while still embracing her privilege (and power) as a citizen of the United States in postwar Central America"-- Provided by publisher.
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