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The Character of the Word: The Texts of Zora Neale Hurston (Contributions in Afro-american & African Studies) - Hardcover

Holloway, Karla

 
9780313252648: The Character of the Word: The Texts of Zora Neale Hurston (Contributions in Afro-american & African Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0313252645 ISBN 13: 9780313252648
Verlag: Praeger, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

With the publication of this text, Karla Holloway becomes the first to produce a book-length analysis of Hurston's use of language in her four major novels. . . . Holloway supports all of her contentions by combining studies of African and Afro-American culture with Euramerican critical theories of semiology and structuralism. The result is a fascinating study of the shifting language of the narrators in each of Hurston's novels, and how these shifts relate to the emotional states of the characters and to the novelist herself. Choice

In The Character of the Word: The Texts of Zora Neale Hurston, Karla F.C. Holloway breaks new ground by placing Hurston's life and writings in a context at once literary and political. In a political sense, Hurston envisioned herself as the embodiment of her African heritage and felt that her writing was its message. From a literary perspective, Hurston's work had a tremendous influence on her daughters: writers such as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison. Writing from the perspective of a black feminist, Holloway defines the milieu in which Hurston came of age and emphasizes the influence of this community upon her writing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

KARLA F.C. HOLLOWAY, is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and African American Literature and Director of African and Afro-American Studies at Duke University.

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Verlag
Praeger
Erscheinungsdatum
1987
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0313252645
ISBN 13 
9780313252648
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
148
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