Native speakers Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita Gonzalez, and the poetics of culture /

Cotera, Maria Eugenia, 1964-

Native speakers Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita Gonzalez, and the poetics of culture / [electronic resource] : Maria Eugenia Cotera. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008. - xi, 286 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-273) and index.

Introduction : writing in the margins of the twentieth century -- Ethnographic meaning making and the politics of difference -- Standing on the middle ground : Ella Deloria's decolonizing methodology -- "Lyin' up a nation" : Zora Neale Hurston and the literary uses of the folk -- A romance of the border : J. Frank Dobie, Jovita Gonzalez, and the study of the folk in Texas -- Re-writing culture : storytelling and the decolonial imagination -- "All my relatives are noble" : recovering the feminine on Waterlily -- "De nigger woman is de mule uh de world" : storytelling and the black feminist tradition -- Feminism on the border : Caballero and the poetics of collaboration -- Epilogue: "What's love got to do with it?" : toward a passionate praxis.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Deloria, Ella Cara.
Hurston, Zora Neale--Criticism and interpretation.
Mireles, Jovita Gonzalez, 1904-1983 --Criticism and interpretation.


Minority women--Social conditions--United States--20th century.
Feminism--History--United States--20th century.
Women and literature--History--United States--20th century.
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Imaginary conversations.


Electronic books.

HQ1419 / .C683 2008

305.5/52089009730904