"Go there tuh know there": Zora Neale Hurston and the Chronotope of the Folk
@article{Duck2001GoTT, title={"Go there tuh know there": Zora Neale Hurston and the Chronotope of the Folk}, author={Leigh Anne Duck}, journal={American Literary History}, year={2001}, volume={13}, pages={265 - 294} }
In his 1936 Opportunity review of Mules and Men (1935), Zora Neale Hurston's collection of southern African-American folklore and hoodoo practices, Alain Locke raises a concern still prevalent in the criticism of her work. Praising her knowledge of the "rare native material and local color," he nonetheless com- plains that the locale, as she presents it, is "too Arcadian," even "extinct" ("Deep River" 9). An influential and prolific critic, Locke called often for the artistic representation of…
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