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Refreshingly theorized and analytically astute, this book breaks new ground in Zora Neale Hurston studies. It offers a philosophically centered reframing of not only Hurston’s life, career, and works, but also her influences on major black women novelists and poets. * Christopher N. Okonkwo, Professor, Department of English, Florida State University and author of Kindred Spirits: Chinua Achebe and Toni Morrison. *

Refreshingly theorized and analytically astute, this book breaks new ground in Zora Neale Hurston studies. It offers a philosophically centered reframing of not only Hurston’s life, career, and works, but also her influences on major black women novelists and poets. * Christopher N. Okonkwo, Professor, Department of English, Florida State University and author of Kindred Spirits: Chinua Achebe and Toni Morrison. * Zora Neale Hurston, a wildcard of the Harlem Renaissance, was frequently sidelined for her unorthodox perspectives on race and gender. In Zora Neale Hurston and the Legacy of Black Feminism, Eze explores the overlooked question of why, tracing these tensions to Hurston’s philosophy and her focus on desire at the heart of the self. Meticulously researched, this book offers a fresh, essential understanding of Hurston’s enduring legacy in Black female writing. * Portia Owusu, Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies, Texas A&M University, USA *

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Chielozona Eze is Professor and Director of Africana Studies at Carleton College, USA, and Research Associate at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. He has authored 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals and five monographs, one of which was on Alain Locke and the Harlem Renaissance.

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