In de Affica Soil
Slavery, Ethnography, and Recovery in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon: The Story of the “Last Black Cargo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7914735 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raquel Kennon (0009-0001-3030-4158, California State University, Northridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 75-104 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-755X • E-ISSN: 1946-3170 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/melus/mlab003 |
| OpenAlex | W3136945136 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 41 |
I explore the relationship between Hurston as ethnographer and Kossola as subject in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,” posthumously published in 2018 but extant since 1931. Barracoon reveals how Hurston wrestles with her dual identity as fiction writer and cultural anthropologist as it crafts a narrative of slavery and liberation around conjured memory and the ethnographic relationship. The essay considers how Hurston harnesses her rhetorical powers to convince Kossola to share recollections of his life “in Affica soil,” and examines how the themes of loss and recovery emerge in Hurston’s recording of Kossola’s narrative of capture, enslavement, and free life in Africatown, the construction of an archive of transatlantic slavery, and the extraliterary narrative of Alice Walker’s reclamation of Hurston’s own voice into the canon
African american · African-American literature · Archaeology · Art · Ethnography · Extant taxon · Fireworks · Literature · Narrative · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Subject (documents · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston
African American Writing
The Empire Writes Back
Image Matters
Exchanging our country marks
Zora Neale Hurston and the Federal Folk
Negro Folk Tales from the South. (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana)
The Transformation of Eatonville's Ethnographer
Inventing the New Negro
Listening to Images
Zora’s Politics
Barracoon
Uncovering The Hidden Lives of Last Clotilda Survivor Matilda McCrear and Her Family
Zora Neale Hurston’s visual and textual portrait of middle passage survivor Oluale Kossola/Cudjo Lewis
Wrapped in Rainbows
The Character of the Word
The Power of the Porch
Finding last middle passage survivor Sally ‘Redoshi’ Smith on the page and screen
Slavery and Social Death
Intuiting Archive
The practice of everyday life
Zora Neale Hurston, Biographical Criticism, and African Diasporic Vernacular Culture
Representations of Speech in the WPA Slave Narratives of Florida and the Writings of Zora Neale Hurston
Insider and Outsider, Black and American
Protection in My Mouf
Reading Hurston Writing
Social Rituals and the Verbal Art of Zora Neale Hurston
Myth in Africa
Cudjo's Own Story of the Last African Slaver
What Is Africa to Me? Knowledge Possession, Knowledge Production, and the Health of Our Bodies Politic in Africa and the Africa Diaspora
Venus in Two Acts
Gender in African Women's Writing
Cultural Anthropology in 2018
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |