Prefatory poem: in a time of Zora / E. Ethlebert Miller -- To paint a woman black and female at the turn of the 20th century. Zora Neale Hurston: a black white-collar working woman / Piper G. Huguley-Riggins -- Zora Neale Hurston: pioneering social scientist / Lucy Anne Hurston -- Masculinity in Hurston's texts / Kersuze Simeon-Jones -- Hollywood wants a cracker: Zora Neale Hurston and studio narrative culture / Elizabeth Binggeli -- A renaissance woman: poetics, performance, photography, and film. Zora Neale Hurston's folk choreography / Anthea Kraut -- Modernist visions of "self" within community: Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God and James Van Der Zee's Home in Harlem photographs / Emily M. Hinnov -- Hurston, Toomer, and the dream of a negro theatre / John Lowe -- Zora Neale Hurston and the possibility of poetry / Phyllis McEwen -- A voice of the South. "Beholding 'A great tree in leaf'": eros, nature, and the visionary in Their eyes were watching God / Gurleen Grewal -- Zora Neale Hurston: environmentalist in southern literature / Scott Hicks -- Narrative displacement: the symbolic burden of disability in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee / Michelle Jarman -- Zora Neale Hurston and the challenge of black Atlantic identity / Shirley Toland-Dix -- Premonition: peering through time and into Hurricane Katrina / Dawood H. Sultan and Deanna J. Wathington -- The legacy of Zora Neale Hurston in the 21st century. "The man in the gutter is the God-maker": Zora Neale Hurston's philosophy of culture / Catherine A. John -- Dear Zora: letters from the new literati / Kendra Nicole Bryant -- Their eyes were watching God: the novel, the film--an interview with Valerie Boyd / Deborah G. Plant -- De-lionizing Zora Neale Hurston? / Linda Tavernier-Almada -- "A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him": Hurston versus court-ordered school integration / Lynn Moylan -- The color line and the hem line: problem or promise of a post-racial, post-gendered America / A. Giselle Jones-Jones -- Organic universalism in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Joanne M. Braxton.
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