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Article: Zora Neale Hurston: with a half dozen new books, the literary world reexamines this enigmatic writer's life's work. (tribute).(Brief Article)
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- Black Issues Book Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Every so often, literary scholars seem to want to dissect an author's body of work, hoping to gain some insight into their personal life. It's a kind of backend approach to biographical research that assumes literary figures are somehow revealed in their characters and story lines. The equivalent of literary psychoanalysis, at times it's a convenient way to divine a writer's thinking. But there are always exceptions.
What does Invisible Man say about Ralph Ellison? Or Beloved and Song of Solomon say about Toni Morrison? Maybe nothing. Maybe everything.
Inevitably, any writer worth their salt is subject to a rigorous deconstruction, not just of their ...