An Analysis of Zora Heale Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression

by Mercedes Aguirre and Benjamin Lempert

A critical analysis of African-American novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston' 1934 essay Characteristics of Negro Expression: A crushing evaluation of the many racial prejudices of 1930s America, including a common presumption that African American art was unoriginal - merely poorly copying white culture.

Hurston's approach and premises may seem in many ways dated to modern readers, but the essay still shows an incisive mind carefully...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 191212811X
• ISBN13: 9781912128112
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Macat Library
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.1" x 7.8"