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This anthology of Zora Neale Hurston's work includes ""Sweat"" and ""The Gilded Six-Bits"". The volume also includes the 1934 essay ""Characteristics of Negro-Expression"", with excerpts from her autobiography ""Dust Tracks on the Road"" - with critical commentary.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chronology
"Sweat"
Background to the Story
Research
Characteristics of Negro Expressions
Negotiating Respect: Patterns of Presentation among Black Women
A Selection of Blues and Spirituals
Genesis 1-3
Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text
The Gilded Six-Bits
Critical Essays
From Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography
Breaking out of the Conventions of Dialect
The Artist in the Kitchen: The Economies of Creativity in Hurston's "Sweat"
From Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston's Cosmic Comedy
"I Love the Way Janie Crawford Left her Husbands": Zora Neale Hurston's Emergent Female Hero
Looking for Zara
Selected Bibliography
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      Publisher: Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/03/1997
      ISBN13: 9780813523163, 978-0813523163
      ISBN10: 0813523168
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This anthology of Zora Neale Hurston's work includes ""Sweat"" and ""The Gilded Six-Bits"". The volume also includes the 1934 essay ""Characteristics of Negro-Expression"", with excerpts from her autobiography ""Dust Tracks on the Road"" - with critical commentary.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction
      Chronology
      "Sweat"
      Background to the Story
      Research
      Characteristics of Negro Expressions
      Negotiating Respect: Patterns of Presentation among Black Women
      A Selection of Blues and Spirituals
      Genesis 1-3
      Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text
      The Gilded Six-Bits
      Critical Essays
      From Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography
      Breaking out of the Conventions of Dialect
      The Artist in the Kitchen: The Economies of Creativity in Hurston's "Sweat"
      From Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston's Cosmic Comedy
      "I Love the Way Janie Crawford Left her Husbands": Zora Neale Hurston's Emergent Female Hero
      Looking for Zara
      Selected Bibliography
      Permissions

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