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Taking the Axe to Babylon: Zora Neale Hurston's "Lost" Caroline Stories, Gender, Place, and Power
Ist Teil von
The Mississippi quarterly, 2016-09, Vol.69 (4), p.481-500
Ort / Verlag
Mississippi State: College of Arts and Sciences of Mississippi State University
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In 1973, Alice Walker set out to discover and mark the grave of the African American writer and anthropologist who had inspired her, Zora Neale Hurston. In 1975, she published an essay called "Looking for Zora," concerned that without such attention, Hurston "would slip back into obscurity" ("Alice Walker"). In the process of resurrecting Hurston's works and reputation, Walker found Hurston's approximate burial place and bought a marker. Since this famous rescue from near obscurity, a small number of Hurston texts have become canonical, particularly the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), which is frequently taught in high schools and colleges. As sometimes the only African American-authored text on a syllabus, the novel often bears the weight of its genre and, perhaps as a result, frequently falls victim to stereotypes of representation and interpretation. In this context, Their Eyes Were Watching God is described as a "beloved classic," and the plot is codified as one woman's coming to selfhood, or gaining a voice.