Native speakers : Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita González, and the poetics of culture / María Eugenia Cotera.

Author/creator Cotera, María Eugenia, 1964-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoAustin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
Descriptionxi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Deloria, Ella Cara.
Hurston, Zora Neale--Criticism and interpretation.
Mireles, Jovita González, 1904-1983--Criticism and interpretation.
Minority women--United States. --Social conditions. --20th century.
Feminism--United States. --History. --20th century.
Women and literature--United States. --History. --20th century.
American literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Imaginary conversations.

Contents Introduction : writing in the margins of the twentieth century -- Ethnographic meaning making and the politics of difference -- Standing on the middle ground : Ella Deloria's decolonizing methodology -- "Lyin' up a nation" : Zora Neale Hurston and the literary uses of the folk -- A romance of the border : J. Frank Dobie, Jovita González, and the study of the folk in Texas -- Re-writing culture : storytelling and the decolonial imagination -- "All my relatives are noble" : recovering the feminine on Waterlily -- "De nigger woman is de mule uh de world" : storytelling and the black feminist tradition -- Feminism on the border : Caballero and the poetics of collaboration -- Epilogue: "What's love got to do with it?" : toward a passionate praxis.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-273) and index.
LCCN 2008018326
ISBN9780292718685 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0292718683 (cloth : alk. paper)

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