CULTURAL SPACE AS A MODERNIST NON-PLACE IN ZORA NEALE HURSTON’S JONAH’S GOURD VINE
CULTURAL SPACE AS A MODERNIST NON-PLACE IN ZORA NEALE HURSTON’S JONAH’S GOURD VINE

Summary/Abstract: "The African American womanist writer Zora Neale Hurston occupies an ambiguous position in the bosom of Black Modernism. As a popular artist of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston can be seen as a central figure of that artistic movement; however, from a different angle, her Modernism can be placed in opposition to the movement. This positionality of being within, yet without, grants her the status of a non-place-like character - something which also permeates her works. Jonah’s Gourd Vine is particularly relevant in this respect, since the book itself embodies Hurston’s politics of ambiguity and non-places prove to be structural elements in the construction of her cultural universe. "[...]

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