{"product_id":"the-chase-and-ruins-9781421446660","title":"The Chase and Ruins","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating look at a pivotal period in Zora Neale Hurston's life that reimagines her complicated legacy.   Zora Neale Hurston, an anthropologist and writer best known for her classic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, led a complicated life often marked by tragedy and contradictions. When both she and her writing fell out of favor after the Harlem Renaissance, she struggled not only to regain an audience for her novels but also to simply make ends meet. In The Chase and Ruins, Sharony Green uncovers an understudied but important period of Hurston's life: her stay in Honduras in the late 1940s. On the eve of an awful accusation that nearly led to her suicide, Hurston fled to Honduras in search of a lost Mayan ruin. During her yearlong trip south of the US border, she appears to have never found the ruin she was chasing. But by escaping the Jim Crow south to Honduras, she avoided racist violence in the United States while still embracing her privilegeand poweras a US citizen in postw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003eChapter One\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five\u003cbr\u003eAfterword\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408149356887,"sku":"9781421446660","price":21.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421446660.jpg?v=1730501771","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-chase-and-ruins-9781421446660","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}