PAPERBACK ISBN: 0-88258-189-9   $37.95

304 pages; 6 x 9 inches

by Lynda Marion Hill

Zora Neale Hurston has burst onto the American literary scene twice—once in 1934, when she debuted as both a novelist and an ethnographer of African American life, and again in the late 1970s, after her death, when Alice Walker brought her once again to the attention of the reading public. Today, Hurston is recognized as a giant not only of African American literature and feminist literature but of the literary world as a whole.  Social Rituals and the Verbal Art of Zora Neale Hurston is the first systematic study that takes absolutely seriously Hurston’s passionate interest in theatre and in so doing, admirably probes her appreciation for the performativity of language evident in what might be considered non-dramatic texts.  Lynda Hill conducts a critical archaeology of Hurston’s transcribed field notes, audio recordings, correspondence, and theatre programs as well as published fiction and anthropological articles.

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