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I love myself when I am laughing ... and then again when I am looking mean and impressive : a Zora Neale Hurston reader / edited by Alice Walker ; introduction by Mary Helen Washington.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Old Westbury, N.Y. : Feminist Press, [1979]Copyright date: �1979Description: 313 pages : portraits ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0912670568
  • 9780912670560
  • 9780912670669
  • 0912670665
Uniform titles:
  • Works Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: I love myself when I am laughing ... and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.LOC classification:
  • PS3515.U789A6 2011
Contents:
Dedication: On refusing to be humbled by second place in a contest you did not design : a tradition by now / Alice Walker -- Introduction: Zora Neale Hurston : a woman half in shadow / Mary Helen Washington -- 1. Autobiography, folklore and reportage. from Dust Tracks on a Road ; from Mules and Men ; from Tell my Horse -- 2. Essays and articles. How it feels to be colored me ; The "pet" Negro system ; My most humiliating Jim Crow experience ; Crazy for this democracy ; What white publishers won't print -- 3. Fiction. The Eatonville anthology ; from Jonah's Gourd vine ; Sweat ; The gilded six-bits ; from Moses, man of the mountain ; from Their eyes were watching God -- Afterword: Looking for Zora / Alice Walker.
Summary: Anthology of essays, folklore and fiction by a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Holdings
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Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection PS3515.U789A6 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5243836

The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Arden Eversmeyer Collection. TXA

Includes bibliographical references.

Dedication: On refusing to be humbled by second place in a contest you did not design : a tradition by now / Alice Walker -- Introduction: Zora Neale Hurston : a woman half in shadow / Mary Helen Washington -- 1. Autobiography, folklore and reportage. from Dust Tracks on a Road ; from Mules and Men ; from Tell my Horse -- 2. Essays and articles. How it feels to be colored me ; The "pet" Negro system ; My most humiliating Jim Crow experience ; Crazy for this democracy ; What white publishers won't print -- 3. Fiction. The Eatonville anthology ; from Jonah's Gourd vine ; Sweat ; The gilded six-bits ; from Moses, man of the mountain ; from Their eyes were watching God -- Afterword: Looking for Zora / Alice Walker.

Anthology of essays, folklore and fiction by a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance.

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