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- catalog abstract "For the writer/anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, humor offered "a way out of no way," helping African American culture survive the harsh realities of life. The humor in Hurston's writing was a vehicle for subversive observations on intolerable conditions, yet it also provided a joyous commentary on the paradoxically creative and exuberant folk culture of an oppressed people. John Lowe explores the comic elements of Hurston's fiction in the first book-length critical study to draw on her entire body of work. Tracing connections between Hurston's life and the cultural, historical, and literary events that affected her, Lowe reveals the sources of her humor and its serious purposes by using social science humor theory, American studies, feminist theory, Bakhtin, and close readings of Hurston's fiction, nonfiction, manuscripts, and letters. Lowe also shows how Hurston balanced her levity with a resonant cosmic language drawn largely from African and African American religious imagery.".
- catalog contributor b6560618.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description ""Cast in Yo' Nets Right Here": Finding a Comic Voice -- In the Words of Our Father: The Sacred and Sorrowful Humor of Jonah's Gourd Vine -- Laughin' Up a World: Their Eyes Were Watching God and the (Wo)Man of Words -- Signifying on God: Moses, Man of the Mountain -- Cuttin' the Cracker for the White Folks: Seraph on the Suwanee.".
- catalog description "For the writer/anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, humor offered "a way out of no way," helping African American culture survive the harsh realities of life. The humor in Hurston's writing was a vehicle for subversive observations on intolerable conditions, yet it also provided a joyous commentary on the paradoxically creative and exuberant folk culture of an oppressed people. John Lowe explores the comic elements of Hurston's fiction in the first book-length critical study to draw on her entire body of work. Tracing connections between Hurston's life and the cultural, historical, and literary events that affected her, Lowe reveals the sources of her humor and its serious purposes by using social science humor theory, American studies, feminist theory, Bakhtin, and close readings of Hurston's fiction, nonfiction, manuscripts, and letters. Lowe also shows how Hurston balanced her levity with a resonant cosmic language drawn largely from African and African American religious imagery.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-358) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 373 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Jump at the sun.".
- catalog identifier "025202110X (cloth : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Jump at the sun.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog relation "Jump at the sun.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States".
- catalog spatial "Southern States.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "813/.52 20".
- catalog subject "African Americans in literature.".
- catalog subject "Comic, The, in literature.".
- catalog subject "Cosmology in literature.".
- catalog subject "Folklore in literature.".
- catalog subject "Humorous stories, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Hurston, Zora Neale Humor.".
- catalog subject "Literature and folklore Southern States.".
- catalog subject "Literature and folklore United States.".
- catalog subject "PS3515.U789 Z77 1994".
- catalog subject "PS3515.U789 Z77 1995".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Southern States History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents ""Cast in Yo' Nets Right Here": Finding a Comic Voice -- In the Words of Our Father: The Sacred and Sorrowful Humor of Jonah's Gourd Vine -- Laughin' Up a World: Their Eyes Were Watching God and the (Wo)Man of Words -- Signifying on God: Moses, Man of the Mountain -- Cuttin' the Cracker for the White Folks: Seraph on the Suwanee.".
- catalog title "Jump at the sun : Zora Neale Hurston's cosmic comedy / John Lowe.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Humor. fast".
- catalog type "text".