Native Speakers : : Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita Gonzalez, and the Poetics of Culture / / María Eugenia Cotera.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Cotera, María Eugenia,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)

In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from South Dakota, Zora Neale Hurston, an African American woman from Florida, and Jovita González, a Mexican American woman from the Texas borderlands, achieved...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Writing in the Margins of the Twentieth Century
• PART 1. Ethnographic Meaning Making and the Politics of Difference
• 1. Standing on the Middle Ground: Ella Deloria’s Decolonizing Methodology
• 2. “Lyin’ Up a Nation”: Zora Neale Hurston and the Literary Uses of the Folk
• 3. A Romance of the Border: J. Frank Dobie, Jovita González, and the Study of the Folk in Texas
• PART 2. Re-Writing Culture: Storytelling and the Decolonial Imagination
• 4. “All My Relatives Are Noble”: Recovering the Feminine in Waterlily
• 5. “De nigger woman is de mule uh de world”: Storytelling and the Black Feminist Tradition
• 6. Feminism on the Border: Caballero and the Poetics of Collaboration
• Epilogue. “What’s Love Got to Do with It?”: Toward a Passionate Praxis
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index