Native Speakers: Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita Gonzalez, and the Poetics of Culture
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (981 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0292721617 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 300 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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. María Eugenia Cotera is Associate Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan
Can such a conversation reveal a shared history that has been erased due to institutional racism, sexism, and simple neglect? Is there a mode of comparative reading that can explore their points of connection even as it remains attentive to their differences? These are the questions at the core of this book, which offers not only a corrective history centered on the lives of women of color intellectuals, but also a methodology for comparative analysis shaped by their visions of the world.. Winner, Gloria Anzaldua Book Prize, National Women's Studies Association, 2009In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. At its core is also a meditation on what it means to draw three women—from disparate though nevertheless interconnected histories of marginalization—into conversation with one another. 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, a
Linda G. Merchant said Five Stars. Great book by an accomplished scholar!
About the Author María Eugenia Cotera is Associate Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan.