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The Character of the Word: The Texts of Zora Neale Hurston (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)
The Character of the Word The Texts of Zora Neale Hurston - Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies Author: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 f... more »ascinating study of the shifting language of the narrators in each of Hurston's novels, and how these shifts relate to the emotional states of the characters and to the novelist herself." Choice« less