Native Speakers: Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita González, and the Poetics of Culture

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Writing in the Margins of the Twentieth Century 1 PART 1. Ethnographic Meaning Making and the Politics of Difference 23 1. Standing on the Middle Ground: Ella Deloria’s Decolonizing Methodology 41 2. “Lyin’ Up a Nation”: Zora Neale Hurston and the Literary Uses of the Folk 71 3. A Romance of the Border: J. Frank Dobie, Jovita González, and the Study of the Folk in Texas 103 PART 2. Re-Writing Culture: Storytelling and the Decolonial Imagination 133 4. “All My Relatives Are Noble”: Recovering the Feminine in Waterlily 145 5. “De nigger woman is de mule uh de world”: Storytelling and the Black Feminist Tradition 171 6. Feminism on the Border: Caballero and the Poetics of Collaboration 199 Epilogue. “What’s Love Got to Do with It?”: Toward a Passionate Praxis 225 viii Native Speakers Notes 233 Bibliography 259 Index 275 ...