The (Ever)Lasting Significance of Zora Neale Hurston'sBarracoon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6012209 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dana A Williams (Howard University, corresponding author), Jimisha Relerford (Howard University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 94-106 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Utopian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-991X • E-ISSN: 2154-9648 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/langhughrevi.26.1.0094 |
| OpenAlex | W3017854818 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon teaches us distinct lessons about African American literary studies and its relation to the memory of Africa. In this text, Kossula helps us better understand a transatlantic black identity, the tension that exist between those who remember Africa and those who have adopted a black American identity, and the failures of supposed victories and African emigration. This traversing also reminds us that there can be no agreed upon or stable method for charting literary history. Instead, it encourages us to follow a model of historiography that looks for continuity and is more cross-directional than vertical. The archive, of course, requires such a model. Thus, Barracoon's publication, as an archival artifact especially, is also instructive as evidence of the primacy of the archive in relation to canon formation and literary traditions
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Emigration · Historiography · History of literature · Literature · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Computer Science · History · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |