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Author:

Meisenhelder, Susan Edwards, 1951-

Title:

Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : race and gender in the work of Zora Neale Hurston / Susan Edwards Meisenhelder.

Edition:

1st paperbound printing.

Publisher:

University of Alabama Press

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

258 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Hurston, Zora Neale--Criticism and interpretation.
Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Sex role in literature.
African American women in literature.
Race relations in literature.
African Americans in literature.

Notes:

Originally published: c1999. Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-251) and index.

Contents:

"Fractious" mules and covert resistance in Mules and men -- "Natural men" and "pagan poesy" in Jonah's gourd vine -- "Mink skin or coon hide": the Janus-faced narrative of Their eyes were watching God -- The ways of white folks in Seraph on the Suwanee -- "Crossing over" and "heading back": Black cultural freedom in Moses, man of the mountain -- "With a harp and a sword in my hand": Black female identity in Dust tracks on a road -- The "trials" of Black women in the 1950s: Ruby McCollum and Laura Lee Kimble.

ISBN:

0817311319
9780817311315

OCLC:

(OCoLC)48765276

Locations:

CWPB586 -- Mellinger Memorial Library (Morning Sun)