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The Politics of Black Joy cracks open the complexities of southern Blackness by offering an intriguing and underutilized approach--Black joy--to address how the South sits at the crux of racial performance, agency, and gender. At the center of Lindsey Stewart's theorization is Zora Neale Hurston, a southern literary and cultural icon whose genius is revisited every generation. Stewart not only demonstrates a mastery of scholarship about Hurston's life and writing but also ties it together with her own analysis to create a work that refreshes criticism surrounding Hurston and her contemporaries to gain a better understanding of southern Black life and culture. --Regina N. Bradley, author of Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South

The Politics of Black Joy cracks open the complexities of southern Blackness by offering an intriguing and underutilized approach--Black joy--to address how the South sits at the crux of racial performance, agency, and gender. At the center of Lindsey Stewart's theorization is Zora Neale Hurston, a southern literary and cultural icon whose genius is revisited every generation. Stewart demonstrates a mastery of not only scholarship about Hurston's life and writing but ties it together with her own analysis to create a work that refreshes criticism surrounding Hurston and her contemporaries to gain a better understanding of southern Black life and culture. --Regina N. Bradley, author of Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South

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LINDSEY STEWART is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Memphis.

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