"That commonality of feeling": Hurston, hybridity, and ethnography.(Zora Neale Hurston)(Critical Essay)

African American Review | September 22, 2004| | Copyright

Preparing the manuscript of Mules and Men, Zora Neale Hurston wrote to her mentor, anthropologist Franz Boas, "full of tremors, lest you decide that you do not want to write the introduction." She knew that the book contained much "unscientific matter," according to ethnographic conventions, but she also assured Boas that "the conversations and incidents are true" (Letter to Boas, 20 Aug. 1934). Though not based strictly on "hard facts" presented in scientific format, Hurston's text captured much more than a traditional ethnography could capture. Her ethnographic texts ...

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