{"product_id":"zora-neale-hurston-and-the-legacy-of-black-feminism-desire-as-power-9781350405677","title":"Zora Neale Hurston and the Legacy of Black Feminism: Desire as Power","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first extended examination into the structure of influence of Zora Neale Hurston's work on major Black women writers, an idea that has been widely accepted, this book explores Hurston's impact on such authors as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, Rita Dove, and Tracy K. Smith.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing specifically on the concept of desire as a liberatory idiom and as the highest expression of self-consciousness and personhood, Chielozona Eze delves into the ethical and social assumptions of Hurston's aesthetics and feminist visions and their manifestations in the works of the Black women writers who came after her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough philosophical conceptions of desire, and zoning in on Hurston's \u003ci\u003eTheir Eyes were Watching God\u003c\/i\u003e and its protagonist Janie Crawford, Eze unlocks crucial conceptual and analytic trajectories regarding debates on freedom, personhood and Black feminism, and how such rich interiority appears in key works by Black women. Surveying fiction including\u003ci\u003e The Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSula\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSong of Solomon\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e, and poetry collections such as \u003ci\u003eLife on Mars, The Body's Question\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow House on the Corner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThomas and Beulah\u003c\/i\u003e, this book is a remarkable intervention with important implications for our times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChielozona Eze\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor and Director of Africana Studies at Carleton College, USA, and Research Associate at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. He has authored 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals and five monographs, one of which was on Alain Locke and the Harlem Renaissance.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52057766887698,"sku":"9781350405677","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b26df58c-3b23-4ed7-8c6e-73679b8e9a82.jpg?v=1772006011","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/zora-neale-hurston-and-the-legacy-of-black-feminism-desire-as-power-9781350405677","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}