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Zora Neale Hurston is a controversial figure, equally praised and criticized for her representation of African-Americans; while some critics emphasize her ebullience and celebration of Black culture, others call her fiction stereotypical and essentialist. Observing the workings of the recurrent humor in her works helps explode this critical binary opposition. Specifically, the carnivalesque and the heteroglossia often subvert essentialist notions of (Black) identity. Jonah's Gourd Vine's protago

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Author

Hurston, Zora Neale; Meisenhelder, Susan E.

Publisher

University of Alabama Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817311315

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Literary Criticism

Updated

2026-03-25