Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon

by Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall

Book Overview

Iconic as a novelist and popular cultural figure, Zora Neale Hurston remains underappreciated as an anthropologist. Is it inevitable that Hurston's literary authority should eclipse her anthropological authority? If not, what socio-cultural and institutional values and processes shape the different ways we read her work? Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall considers the polar receptions to Hurston's two areas of achievement by examining the critical response...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252044967
• ISBN13: 9780252044960
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"