Author: Rick KoestlerPublisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1598584693
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
Author: Zora Neale HurstonPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062915819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
From “one of the greatest writers of our time” (Toni Morrison)—the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God—a collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time. New York Times’ Books to Watch for Buzzfeed’s Most Anticipated Books Newsweek’s Most Anticipated Books Forbes.com’s Most Anticipated Books E!’s Top Books to Read Glamour’s Best Books Essence’s Best Books by Black Authors In 1925, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston—the sole black student at the college—was living in New York, “desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world.” During this period, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later, this singular talent is recognized as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the modern period. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston’s “lost” Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humor, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of Hurston’s world. All are timeless classics that enrich our understanding and appreciation of this exceptional writer’s voice and her contributions to America’s literary traditions.
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
Author: Zora Neale HurstonPublisher: HQ
ISBN: 9780008374716
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Noveller. Collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together in one volume, they include eight of Hurston's 'lost' Harlem stories
Hitting A Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
Author: Susan E MeisenhelderPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817311319
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Zora Neale Hurston is a controversial figure, equally praised and criticized for her representation of African-Americans; while some critics emphasize her ebullience and celebration of Black culture, others call her fiction stereotypical and essentialist. Observing the workings of the recurrent humor in her works helps explode this critical binary opposition. Specifically, the carnivalesque and the heteroglossia often subvert essentialist notions of (Black) identity. Jonah's Gourd Vine's protagonist, the preacher-womanizer John Pearson, can be seen as an African rather than an African-American trickster figure, i.e. as a mobile character whose liminality helps him fight essentialist definitions imposed on him by both the white establishment and his own community. Janie's romantic search for self-fulfillment in Their Eyes Were Watching God is undermined by the humor and the carnival, which emphasize her shifting and multiply defined identity. Finally, the African-Americanized story of Moses and the Hebrews shows the conflicts involved in their search for a unified national and cultural identity. In these three novels, Hurston appears as a subversive presence whose manipulation of humor underscores a complex political vision.
Straight Lick
Author: J. Ronald GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A critical examination of the films of Oscar Micheaux. One of the most original and successful filmmakers of all time, Oscar Micheaux was born into a rural, working-class, African-American family in mid-America in 1884, yet he created an impressive legacy in commercial cinema. Between 1913 and 1951 he wrote, directed, and distributed some forty-three feature films, more than any other black filmmaker in the world, a record of production that is likely to stand for a very long time. Micheaux's work was founded upon the concern for class mobility, or uplift, for African Americans. Uplift provided the context for Micheaux's extensive commentary on racist cinema, such as D. W. Griffith's 1915 blockbuster, The Birth of a Nation, which Micheaux "answered" with his very early films Within Our Gates and Symbol of the Unconquered. Uplift explains Micheaux's use of "negative images" of African Americans as well as his multi-pronged campaign against stereotype and caricature in American culture. His campaign produced a body of films saturated with a nuanced intertexual "signifying," boldly and repeatedly treating controversial topics that face white censorship time after time, topics ranging from white mob and Klan violence to light-skin-color fetish to white financing of black cultural productions.
A Tree Born Crooked
Author: Steph PostPublisher: Polis Books
ISBN: 1947993283
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
James Hart, with a tough-as-nails exterior and an aching emptiness inside, does not want to go home. Yet when James receives a postcard from his mother, Birdie Mae, informing him of his father's death, he bites the bullet and returns to the rural and stagnant town of Crystal Springs, Florida, a place where dreams are born to die. James is too late for Orville's funeral, but just in time to become ensnared in the deadly repercussions of his younger brother Rabbit's life of petty crime. When Rabbit is double crossed by his cousin in a robbery-turned-murder, James and a local bartender, the unsettling and alluring Marlena Bell, must come up with a plan to save Rabbit's skin. A whirlwind road trip across the desolate Florida panhandle ensues as James tries to stay one step ahead of the vengeful Alligator Mafia and keep his brother alive. With bullets in the air and the ghosts of heartache, betrayal and unspeakable rage haunting him at every turn, James must decide just how much he is willing to risk to protect his family and find a way home.
The Crooked Stick
Author: Rick KoestlerPublisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1598584693
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The Crooked Stick
Author: Rolf BoldrewoodRetro-Ski
Author: Greg MorrillPublisher: LULU
ISBN: 1483405648
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
"Author, columnist, and longtime skiing fanatic Greg Morrill takes a look back at the history of the sport, recalling memories from days gone by. In each chapter Morrill poses a trivia question relating to a topic in skiing history and explores related topics through both personal memories and historical research"--Page [4] of cover.
The Crooked Stick
Author: The Crooked Stick
Author: Marcie AikenPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453593586
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Fast paced true life story covering great-grandparents to great-grand-children and the effects of one generation to the next generation. Life's challenges, joys, disappointments and thrills are all realized. Men and women of all ages have been able to relate to these impressions and experiences as a baby born on the floor to a praying mother develops into a grandmother that has found God sufficient. Laugh and cry as the real life intimate situations of a preacher's family unfold. Experience the positive and negative reactions as relationships and demands accumulate. "There is something for everyone", in this "reality book".