Today was the last day of the Hurston on the Horizon NEH Summer Institute. Special thanks to the staff and each and every participant who made this moving and engaging work possible! Thank you for being present with us. #HurstonontheHorizon#HotH#Hurston2021
"What we have in Hurston’s dossier is an ambivalent theory of Black critique, one that resists, or refuses, the need for Black culture to be made more static than it is."- Dr. Kevin Quashie on "Hurston as Literary Theorist" #Zora#BlackWomen#Hurston2021#AcademicTwitter
"Hurston's work to produce knowledge allowed that kind of mobility to move outside of spaces that other women of her time period weren't able to do" - LaMonda Horton-Stallings #HotH#HurstonontheHorizon#ZoraNealeHurston
"Reading is not a transparent act. Critique studies is asking the general question about how one reads, whether you're reading to unearth something, as a reparative act, or with an openness...while criticism is about accessing and analyzing a text" - Kevin Quashie
"To fully understand [Hurston's] work in the absence of her letters is impossible. They are critical to understanding her work"- Carla Kaplan, author of "Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters" (2002) #HurstonsHorizon#HOTH#Hurston2021#ZoraNealeHurston
"The narrative space [Hurston] creates for Kossola’s unburdening is sacred. Rather than insert herself into the narrative as the learned and probing cultural anthropologist...Zora Neale Hurston, in her still listening, assumes the office of a priest." - Deborah Plant
“What we want to know about [Hurston], we’re not going to find out through her field notes. Who she was as a social scientist precedes her academic training. There’s something about genius that you can’t explain." - Dr. Deborah Plant on “Hurston, Innovation, and Ethnography”
25 #Highered faculty continue to reexamine the works of Zora Neal Hurston in the 3-week #NEHgrant-funded https://t.co/txu0TV7ahQ“Hurston on the Horizon”
What’s your favorite work by this great author, anthropologist, journalist and filmmaker?
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Today begins Week 2 of @ProjectHBW's "Hurston on the Horizon" Virtual Summer Institute 2021! This week's focus is The "Other" Hurston, her essays, ethnographies, letters, and more #HurstonsHorizon#Hurston2021#ZoraNealeHurston
"The constellation of ideology inspired by Hurston and by extension the Black speculative epistimology represented by Eatonville is crucial to understanding Hurston's importance to our current moment." - Dr. Julian Chambliss #Zora#afrofuturism#blackness#blackDH#BlackWomen
"'If you can be free, be a mystery'-- This wonderful phrase is very Hurston; she made herself a mystery. She didn't want to be typecast in anyway. The inspiration was to be a mystery" - Glenda Carpio #HurstonsHorizon#Hurston2021#academictwitter