Title Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : race and gender in the work of Zora Neale Hurston / Susan Edwards Meisenhelder.

Publication Info.	Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [1999]
	©1999

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS3515.U789 Z785 1999	Available	---

Description	258 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-251) and index.
Contents	"Fractious" mules and covert resistance in Mules and men -- "Natural men" and "pagan poesy" in Jonah's gourd vine -- "Mink skin or coon hide" : the Janus-faced narrative of Their eyes were watching God -- The ways of white folks in Seraph on the Suwanee -- "Crossing over" and "heading back" : Black cultural freedom in Moses, man of the mountain -- "With a harp and a sword in my hand" : Black female identity in Dust tracks on a road -- The "trials" of Black women in the 1950s : Ruby McCollum and Laura Lee Kimble.
Subject	Hurston, Zora Neale -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Hurston, Zora Neale.
	Criticism and interpretation.
	Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Women and literature.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	African American women in literature.
	African American women in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	Race relations in literature.
	Race relations in literature.
	Sex role in literature.
	Sex role in literature.
	Hurston, Zora Neale -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Sex role in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	Race relations in literature.
	African American women in literature.
	Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN	0817309659 cloth perm. paper