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

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Main Author: Cotera, María Eugenia, 1964-
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
Edition:First edition.
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.
Physical Description:xi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.