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Article: Zora Neale Hurston and the post-modern self in 'Dust Tracks on a Road.'
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1998
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In the last thirty-five years, Zora Neale Hurston's literary reputation has grown from the obscurity in which Hurston died to the status of a major American author. However, despite her substantial body of work, the revival of her reputation relies largely on Their Eyes Were Watching God, her second novel, which has provoked far more scholarly writing than all of Hurston's other books combined.(1) Nonetheless, Hurston's other books are interesting and merit serious consideration too, and current literary theory offers new and different ways to appreciate them, especially her 1942 autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road, and its complex representation of its subject.
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