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Article: Zora Neale Hurston: The Breath of Her Voice.
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Ayana karanja, Zora Neale Hurston: The Breath of Her Voice. new york: lang, 1999. 176 pp. $29.95.
Zora Neale Hurston: The Breath of Her Voice is a laudatory appraisal of and critical inquiry into the life and work of Zora Neale Hurston. The book is a discursive and an impressionistic pastiche of poetry, photography, dream interpretation and representation, sociology, anthropology, dramatic monologue, and literary criticism. Ayana Karanja's methodology in this work emulates what she terms "Hurstonian stylistics," an ethnographic praxis characterized by a blending of fact and fiction, interdisciplinarity, and self-referentiality. Hurston's style, Karanja states in ...