Our work on junior lit for the Summer Term 2002
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American Lit: Summer Tutorial
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Saturday, October 25, 2003
African American Literature
Web Resources on African American Writers and Literature
5:11 PM
10. Duck, Leigh Anne
" Go there tuh know there": Zora Neale Hurston and the Chronotope of the Folk [View in PDF]
American Literary History - Volume 13, Number 2, Summer 2001, pp. 265-294 - Article
5:11 PM
PAL: Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
4:56 PM
Stories and Living a Life by Robert Coles: "All fiction helps us, the readers, to join the company of the characters whose lives we get to meet on the pages of a book - to become, really, companions on a search, a journey within ourselves that often can prompt all sorts of valuable questions about how we are spending the precious time allotted us. A story becomes a friend, a guide, a source of entertainment and enlightenment both, even, sometimes, a shaping influence on how we think, what we try to do, as we move along, day after day, on our journey."
3:34 PM
Stories and Living a Life by Robert Coles: "All fiction helps us, the readers, to join the company of the characters whose lives we get to meet on the pages of a book - to become, really, companions on a search, a journey within ourselves that often can prompt all sorts of valuable questions about how we are spending the precious time allotted us. A story becomes a friend, a guide, a source of entertainment and enlightenment both, even, sometimes, a shaping influence on how we think, what we try to do, as we move along, day after day, on our journey."
3:33 PM
Zora Neale Hurston discussion transcripts
Various progs talking about H.
Edgar Whan - It’s a nice framed story. It’s like Ulysses coming home.
Marilyn Atlas - Does this friendship ever work absolutely? Is that one of the things she’s saying? That we need each other…
Annette Oxindine - I think she wants us to see the larger connectedness. One of the things that breaks down relationships between individuals are the different hierarchies within the community. And I think that the fact that she triumphs in overalls and she’s oppressed in a blue satin dress. And when she’s sitting on the porch, when she connects with the land and she sees herself as part of the community, those women are threatened by her because of the fact that they are kept separate because power is meted out in such an unfair way. And that’s why they have to be careful. They’re not free to completely love and associate with her.
Edgar Whan - Whatever else, she’s a free person and they’re always dangerous. If the university produced ten free people a year, they’d close it down.
Marilyn Atlas - Oh, how sad.
Annette Oxindine - I’m more optimistic, I’ll say twenty-five. I’m younger.
Edgar Whan - Would you save this city for twenty-five? No? Twenty? And they went down the line and there was nobody left. Maybe with our population increase you could say fifteen.
Marilyn Atlas - Is she free at the end?
Annette Oxindine - Well, then we’d have to get into the whole discussion of what freedom is. I do think she is free to articulate who she is herself a little bit more. I think she does come back as her own daughter.
Edgar Whan - She’s killed the money myth. She’s killed all the myths. She’s been through them and found all of them for what they were worth.
Marilyn Atlas - She does end single and childless. Which is I’m not sure is such a positive statement if you have to be your own daughter that’s a pretty self-contained system. There’s a wonderful side of it in terms of individual identity, but there’s the other side of it that she’s not managed with all her beauty and all her wisdom.
Annette Oxindine - Maybe Hurston is suggesting that a woman to give birth does not have to give birth to a biological child, but she’s giving birth to other women, she’s giving birth to a story.
3:31 PM
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