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Horses Chomping at the Global Bit: Ideology, Systemic Injustice, and Resistance in Zora Neale Hurston's "Tell My Horse"
Ist Teil von
South (Chapel Hill, N.C.), 2014-03, Vol.46 (2), p.173-192
Ort / Verlag
Chapel Hill: DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ∎ THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
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Quelle
Project MUSE
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[...]Hurston's text also de-naturalizes racial identity and emphasizes diasporic connections among Africa, the United States, and the Caribbean, particularly those connections that demonstrate cultural resistance. [...]Hurston ultimately portrays Haiti as resilient and resistant to exploitative ideology by focusing a large portion of Tell My Horse on the African-derived practice of voodoo, emphasizing how its adherents subvert social hierarchies with their performances of ritualized spirit possession. Ultimately, both Wright and Hurston advocate resistance to systemic injustice, and they do so in ways that build upon earlier traditions in African American literature and that influence a number of later authors. [...]in spite of their differences, both contribute to a significant literary discourse about ideology, identity, and resistance, not only in the United States but throughout the Atlantic world.16