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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.

Publisher:

University of Alabama Press,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

258 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

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

Notes:

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:

9780817309657 (cloth : perm. paper)
0817309659 (cloth : perm. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)40135382

LCCN:

98058023

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)