A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism

by Christopher Douglas

Book Overview

As an anthropology student studying with Franz Boas, Zora Neale Hurston recorded African American folklore in rural central Florida, studied hoodoo in New Orleans and voodoo in Haiti, talked with the last ex-slave to survive the Middle Passage, and collected music from Jamaica. Her ethnographic work would serve as the basis for her novels and other writings in which she shaped a vision of African American Southern rural folk culture articulated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801447690
• ISBN13: 9780801447693
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher