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Filtered through black womanist perspectives, Zora Neale Hurston: The Breath of Her Voice breaks new ground through innovation and imagination, by fusing interpretive methods in ethnographic writing and literary studies. Intrinsically referencing contemporary epistemological issues in ethnographic writing and literary canonicity, Dr. Karanja illuminates fragments of Hurston's life through an exploration of her novels and folklore collections. In doing so, she bridges disciplines to construct a postmodern text that "speaks" directly and formidably to oral literature and to the writer's and reader's collaboration in the production of textual meanings.…mehr

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Filtered through black womanist perspectives, Zora Neale Hurston: The Breath of Her Voice breaks new ground through innovation and imagination, by fusing interpretive methods in ethnographic writing and literary studies. Intrinsically referencing contemporary epistemological issues in ethnographic writing and literary canonicity, Dr. Karanja illuminates fragments of Hurston's life through an exploration of her novels and folklore collections. In doing so, she bridges disciplines to construct a postmodern text that "speaks" directly and formidably to oral literature and to the writer's and reader's collaboration in the production of textual meanings.
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The Author: Ayana I. Karanja is Director of Black World Studies and teaches in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at Loyola University, Chicago. Her current research interests include the poetics of black women's life narratives, the intersection of memory and identity with cultural practices, and independent filmmaking. She holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology and Women's Literature.