Title The assertive woman in Zora Neale Hurston's fiction, folklore, and drama / Pearlie Mae Fisher Peters

Published New York : Routledge, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Studies in African American history and culture Studies in African American history and culture. Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "Ah got de law in mah mouf": Negotiating Respect in the Hurston Mold; 2. The Other Woman in Hurston's Art: The Literary Foil to the Assertive Woman; 3. The Assertive Woman in Conversation and Combat: Dimensions of the Talking and Fighting Phenomenon; 4. Big Sweet, Polk County's Queen of Talk and Song; 5. Big Sweet and the Talk Experience in the Jook; 6. Big Sweet in Polk County; 7. Laura Lee in "The Conscience of the Court"; 8. Missie May in "The Gilded Six Bits." 9. Daisy in "Mule Bone" and The Domestic in "Story in Harlem Slang"10. Delia in "Sweat"; 11. Lucy in Jonah's Gourd Vine; 12. Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index Notes Originally published 1998, Garland Publishing Inc Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 5, 2016) Subject Hurston, Zora Neale -- Characters -- Women SUBJECT Hurston, Zora Neale fast Subject Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century Feminist fiction, American -- History and criticism Assertiveness (Psychology) in literature. Feminist drama -- History and criticism African American women in literature. Women -- United States -- Folklore African Americans in literature. African Americans -- Folklore Women in literature. African Americans -- Folklore. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. African American women in literature African Americans African Americans in literature Assertiveness (Psychology) in literature Feminism and literature Feminist drama Feminist fiction, American Women Women and literature Women in literature United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Folklore History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317777014 1317777018

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