Tiffany Ruby Patterson. Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life.(Book review)

African American Review | September 22, 2006| | Copyright

Tiffany Ruby Patterson. Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2005. 229 pp. $64.50 cloth/$22.95 paper.

Tiffany Ruby Patterson delights in the history of the black US South throughout her recounting of that history in Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life. One example of her joy in reconstructing Hurston's relationship to the South lies in her revelations about the townsfolk of Sanford, Florida. There in the early 1930s, Hurston encountered the paternal grandparents of historian John Bracey during her creation of ...

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