Zora Neale Hurston and the legacy of Black feminism : desire as power /
"The first extended examination into the influence of Zora Neale Hurston's work on major black women writers, it explores Hurston's impact on Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, bell hooks, Rita Dove, and Tracy K. Smith, Ntozake Shange and Lorraine Hansberry. Through philosophical conception...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2026.
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| Series: | Bloomsbury studies in global women's writing.
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| Summary: | "The first extended examination into the influence of Zora Neale Hurston's work on major black women writers, it explores Hurston's impact on Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, bell hooks, Rita Dove, and Tracy K. Smith, Ntozake Shange and Lorraine Hansberry. Through philosophical conceptions of desire, and zoning in on Hurston's Their Eyes were Watching God, it unlocks crucial conceptual and analytic trajectories regarding debates on freedom, personhood and Black feminism and how such rich interiority appears in key works by Black women"-- |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 223 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350405677 1350405671 9781350405714 135040571X |