A Hieroglyphics of Zora Neale Hurston

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ID7099997
AuthorsAisha M Beliso‐de Jesú (corresponding author), Aisha M Beliso‐De Jesús (Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, corresponding author), Aisha Mahina Beliso-De Jesus (Harvard Unversity)
Year2016
Volume4
Issue2
Pages290-303
Publication date2016-06-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Africana Religions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2165-5405 • E-ISSN: 2165-5413
PublisherThe Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5325/jafrireli.4.2.0290
OpenAlexW2461036161
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

In this meditation, I explore Zora Neale Hurston's sophisticated testimonies with spirit materialities to demonstrate a move away from ethnographic pornotroping. I show how Hurston intervenes in the relationship between exoticism and liberalism as she eschews the revelatory stance of self-indulgent academic voyeurism or fascinating cannibalism. This shift in metaphysics is inspired by Hurston's “hieroglyphics of the flesh.” White patronage is explored as erotics of ethnography. Hurston's strategic fissures cannot be dislocated from these erotics, which emerge in her writing and research practice. I suggest a move away from “ethnographic pornotroping,” or the academic erotics of research as porno-inspired revelations, toward Hurston's own hieroglyphics of attenuation

Aesthetics · Art · Ethnography · Exoticism · Flesh · Literature · Meditation · Sociology · Theology · White (mutation · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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