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Zora Neale Hurston Special Edition

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Notes from the Editor: Sheila Smith McKoy (excerpt)

Essays

Jason Young

Of Moses, Mules, and Men: Zora Neale Hurston and the Politics of Folk Art (excerpt)

Mawuena Logan

Metaphysical Cloning: An African Epistemology in the Works of Zora Neale Hurtson and Maryse Condé (excerpt)

Temitope Adefarakan

'At a Crossroads': Spirituality and The Politics of Exile: The Case of the Yoruba Orisa (excerpt)

Kevin Meehan

Decolonizing Ethnography: Spirit Possession and Resistance in Tell My Horse (excerpt)

Melvin L. Butler

In Zora's Footsteps: Experiencing Music aand Pentecostal Ritual in the African Diaspora (excerpt)

Eka Tai

Fesitivals as Ritual Assertions for Sustaining Diaspora Communities: Comparing Cases in the USA and Japan (excerpt)

William Mullaney

Her Eyes Were Watching Katrina: Unnatural Deaths in a Natural Disaster (excerpt)

Poems

Anjail Rashida Ahmad

her own cathedral, ambushed, siren song, and without a trace

Frank X. Walker

Husbandry

Ebony Golden

see/her (for zora, queen of bridges), salt water taffy and clean swept floors

Tanya Philips-Owens

Resilience

Fiction

Joi Jackson

Bitter Water (excerpt)