The Character of the Word: The Texts of Zora Neale Hurston

by Karla F.C. Holloway and Karla F.C. Holloway

With the publication of this text, Karla Holloway becomes the first to produce a book-length analysis of Hurston's use of language in her four major novels. . . . Holloway supports all of her contentions by combining studies of African and Afro-American culture with Euramerican critical theories of semiology and structuralism. The result is a fascinating study of the shifting language of the narrators in each of Hurston's novels, and how these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313252645
• ISBN13: 9780313252648
• Release Date: February 1987
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"