Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Steve Glassman and Kathryn Lee Seidel
  • Flora and fauna in Hurston's Florida novels / Ann R. Morris and Margaret M. Dunn
  • Excursions into Zora Neale Hurston's Eatonville / Anna Lillios
  • Beginning to see things really : the politics of Zora Neale Hurston / David Headon
  • Through the prism of Africanity : a preliminary investigation of Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men / Beulah S. Hemmingway
  • A literary reading of Mules and men, part I / Dana McKinnon Preu
  • Subversive female folk tellers in Mules and men / Mary Katherine Wainwright
  • 'De beast' within : the role of nature in Jonah's gourd vine / Alan Brown
  • Voodoo as symbol in Jonah's gourd vine / Barbara Speisman
  • The shape of Hurston's fiction / Rosalie Murphy Baum
  • The artist in the kitchen : the economics of creativity in Hurston's 'Sweat' / Kathryn Lee Seidel
  • Hurston as dramatist : the Florida connection / Warren J. Carson
  • Zora Neale Hurston at Rollins College / Maurice J. O'Sullivan, Jr., and Jack C. Lane
  • Adaptation of the source : ethnocentricity / and 'The Florida negro' / Christopher D. Felker
  • Text and personality in disguise and in the open : Zora Neale Hurston's Dust tracks on a road / Kathleen Hassall
  • Three legal entangelments of Zora Neale Hurston / Kevin M. McCarthy.