The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras

The author recovers an understudied but important period in Zora Neale Hurston's life: her 1947-48 stay in Honduras. Hurston - an anthropologist by training - was officially searching for a lost" Maya ruin. But the author argues that Hurston was also engaged in a much more personal project: in escaping the Jim Crow south to Central America, she was able to sidestep wearying conversations about race in the United States, while still embracing her privilege (and power) as a citizen of the United States in postwar Central America"--

• | Author: Sharony Green
• | Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 03, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1421446669
• | ISBN-13: 9781421446660