Hitting A Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick : Race and Gender in the Work of Zora Neale Hurston.
This comprehensive study examines the ways Hurston circumvented the constraints of the white publishing world and a predominantly white readership to critique white culture and its effects on the black community. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is the first single-authored book-length s...
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. "Fractious" Mules and Covert Resistance in Mules and Men; 2. "Natural Men" and "Pagan Poesy" in Jonah's Gourd Vine; 3. "Mink Skin or Coon Hide": The Janus-faced Narrative of Their Eyes Were Watching God; 4. The Ways of White Folks in Seraph on the Suwanee; 5. "Crossing Over" and "Heading Back": Black Cultural Freedom in Moses, Man of the Mountain; 6. "With a Harp and a Sword in My Hand": Black Female Identity in Dust Tracks on a Road; 7. The "Trials" of Black Women in the 1950s: Ruby McCollum and Laura Lee Kimble; Conclusion; Notes.
