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Cover 1 Frontmatter 2 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Prologue 12 Introduction: Rootedness￢ﾀﾔThe History of Private Life 16 Reconstructing Past Presents 30 Portraits of the South: Zora Neale Hurston￢ﾀﾙs Politics of Place 43 A Place between Home and Horror 61 Sex and Color in Eatonville, Florida 101 A Transient World of Labor 147 Patronage: Anatomy of a Predicament 178 Epilogue 202 Notes 204 Index 236 Publisher:Temple University Press,Published:2005,ISBN:9781592137763,Language:English,OCLC:476075181 A historian hoping to reconstruct the social world of all-black towns or the segregated black sections of other towns in the South finds only scant traces of their existence. In Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life, Tiffany Ruby Patterson uses the ethnographic and literary work of Zora Neale Hurston to augment the few official documents, newspaper accounts, and family records that pertain to these places hidden from history. Hurston's ethnographies, plays, and fiction focused on the day-to-day life in all-black social spaces as well as "the Negro farthest down" in labor camps. Patterson shows how Hurston's work complements the fragmented historical record, using the folklore an

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Author

Patterson, Tiffany Ruby

Publisher

Temple University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781592132898

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Literary Fiction, History