{"title":"Joy of the Black South: Zora Neale Hurston and the Politics of Black Joy—A Review Essay","authors":"R. Jelks","doi":"10.5325/langhughrevi.29.1.0091","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n This review article examines Zora Neale Hurston’s views on the joyful existence of Afro-Southerners. She did not believe the South was backward or inferior to middle-class northerners. The article explores philosopher Lindsey Stewart’s book The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism and Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s and Genevieve West’s Zora Neale Hurston, You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays to think through issues of Black blame and self-loathing.","PeriodicalId":29877,"journal":{"name":"Langston Hughes Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Langston Hughes Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5325/langhughrevi.29.1.0091","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, AMERICAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This review article examines Zora Neale Hurston’s views on the joyful existence of Afro-Southerners. She did not believe the South was backward or inferior to middle-class northerners. The article explores philosopher Lindsey Stewart’s book The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism and Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s and Genevieve West’s Zora Neale Hurston, You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays to think through issues of Black blame and self-loathing.
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