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Jump at the Sun

ZORA NEALE HURSTON'S COSMIC COMEDY

John Lowe author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Published:1st Dec '96

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      "Lowe has written what may well be the Hurston book for the
        years to come." -- Werner Sollors, Harvard University
      "Lowe's study . . . smartly begins with the assumption that one
        reason for the stunning popularity of Hurston's work is the verve with
        which it addresses serious subjects in a comic style." -- Cheryl
        A. Wall, editor of Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory,
        and Writing by Black Women
      "Appreciative of Hurston's 'bodacious' humor, Lowe argues that she
        is 'a profoundly serious, experimental, subversive, and therefore unsettling
        artist.' . . . Strongly recommended." -- Choice
      "A trailblazing effort, a work that will enrich our understanding
        of Hurston's fiction." -- William R. Nash, The Southern Literary
        Journal
      "The most important booklength contribution to Hurston scholarship
        since Robert Hemenway published his biography in 1978." -- Will Brantley,
        Contemporary Literature
 

"Brilliantly explores the comic elements of Zora Neale Hurston's fiction in the first book-length study to draw on her entire body of work." -- AFRAM Newsletter. "The most important booklength contribution to Hurston scholarship since Robert Hemenway published his biography in 1978." -- Will Brantley, Contemporary Literature

ISBN: 9780252066375

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm

Weight: 513g

392 pages