 | Paul Witcover - 1994 - 196 trang
...possibilities are showing themselves constantly." In an essay written several years later, she observed, "Negro folklore is not a thing of the past. It is...great variety shows the adaptability of the black man: nothing is too old or too new, domestic or foreign, high or low, for his use." In New Orleans, Hurston... | |
 | Angelyn Mitchell - 1994 - 548 trang
...artist, his dancing is realistic suggestion, and that is about all a great artist can do. Negro Folklore Negro folklore is not a thing of the past. It is still...great variety shows the adaptability of the black man: nothing is too old or too new, domestic or foreign, high or low, for his use. God and the Devil are... | |
 | John Lowe - 1997 - 396 trang
...stories may someday evolve to this level, for as Hurston stated in "Characteristics of Negro Expression," "Negro folklore is not a thing of the past. It is still in the making" (27). 1S Despite the relative successes of these early stories, all of them differentiated Zora Neale... | |
 | Kimberly Rae Connor - 1994 - 332 trang
...nourished her all the while she was sustaining it. This is due in great measure to her belief that "Negro folklore is not a thing of the past. It is still in the making" (SC, 56). As her culture evolved, so, too, did Hurston, who herself was a kind of continual convert.... | |
 | Cary D. Wintz - 1996 - 400 trang
...artist, his dancing is realistic suggestion, and that is about all a great artist can do. NEGRO FOLKLORE Negro folklore is not a thing of the past. It is still...great variety shows the adaptability of the black man : nothing is too old or too new, domestic or foreign, high or low, for his use. God and the Devil are... | |
 | Zora Neale Hurston - 1997 - 248 trang
...artist, his dancing is realistic suggestion, and that is about all a great artist can do. Negro Folklore Negro folklore is not a thing of the past. It is still...great variety shows the adaptability of the black man: nothing is too old or too new, domestic or foreign, high or low, for his use. God and the Devil are... | |
 | Timothy Paul Caron - 2000 - 182 trang
...alternative that kept their "legal slavery from becoming a spiritual slavery."262 Hurston once wrote that "Negro folklore is not a thing of the past. It is still in the making,"263 and Moses, Man of the Mountain is her best demonstration of this principle. While she was... | |
 | Venetria K. Patton, Maureen Honey - 2001 - 678 trang
...artist, his dancing is realistic suggestion, and that is about all a great artist can do. Negro Folklore Negro folklore is not a thing of the past. It is still...great variety shows the adaptability of the black man: nothing is too old or too new, domestic or foreign, high or low, for his use. God and the Devil are... | |
 | Zora Neale Hurston - 2009 - 322 trang
...and men could talk with him. Way back there before God weighed up the dirt to make the mountains.14 Negro folklore is not a thing of the past. It is still...great variety shows the adaptability of the black man: nothing is too old or too new, domestic or foreign, high or low for his use. God and the devil are... | |
 | Marc Manganaro - 2009 - 243 trang
...them," whereas for Hurston "cultural forms were not fixed" and, in Hurston's own words, African American folklore "is not a thing of the past. It is still in the making" (Cheryl Wall, "On Freedom and Will," in Aesthetics and Ideology, ed. George Levine [New Brunswick,... | |
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Negro folklore is not a thing of the past. It is still in the making. Its great variety shows the adaptability of the black man: nothing is too old or too new, domestic or foreign, high or low, for his use. God and the Devil are paired, and are treated... 
