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Ethnics and Ethnographers: Zora Neale Hurston and Anzia Yezierska1
Ist Teil von
Journal of modern literature, 2006-01, Vol.29 (2), p.19
Ort / Verlag
Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2006
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
American writers Zora Neale Hurston and Anzia Yezierska challenged participant-observation--the practice of living among, observing, and recording a studied culture and its member informants and resulting ethnography. Jirousek explores how Hurston's folklore collection, Mules and Men, and Yezierska's novel, All I Could Never Be, question the validity of ethnographic study as defined by their respective mentors, Franz Boas and John Dewey. She argues that both Hurston and Yezierska shaped the difficult apprenticeship into unique cross-genre texts that captured ethnic informant voices in unprecedented ways while serving as models of sensitive and personal cultural documentation for future writers of fiction and ethnography.