Includes bibliographical references (page 341) and index.

On Zora Neale Hurston : fictionalizing funerals in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Sharon Lynette Jones -- Biography of Zora Neale Hurston / Martin Seymour-Smith and Andrew C. Kimmens -- Moving away from the reactionary : regional mobility in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee / Erin H. Wedehase -- Janie in the sun : Invoking Hurston's Caribbean travels in Tell my horse / Tiffany Boyd Adams -- Mrs. Turpin and Mrs. Turner : foolish pride in Flannery O'Connor's "Revelation" and Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Robert C. Evans -- Race and patronage : critical receptions of Hurston's relationship with Charlotte Osgood Mason / Janine Bradbury -- The gender mountain : the architecture of male-female relationships in Hurston's short fiction / Christopher Allen Varlack -- "The country in the woman" : three forgotten fictions by Zora Neale Hurston / Christine M. Rudisel -- African elements in the folktales of Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men / Babacar M'Baye -- Dance as a "feather-bed resistance" in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men / Ondra Krouse Dismukes -- "Is it not a riot in all that [s]he doeth?" : embracing performativity in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust tracks on a road / Katharine Torrey -- Conservative or visionary : the journalistic career of Zora Neale Hurston / Shelby Crosby -- Signifyin(g) black and white speech in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee / Stephanie Li -- Seraph on the Suwanee : Hurston's "white novel" / Jervette R. Ward -- Zora Neale Hurston as womanist / Cheryl R. Hopson -- Adaptations of Hurston's writings for children and Hurston in historical novels for young readers / Amy Cummins -- "Another instance of our thoughts clicking" : artistic passion in Zora Neale Hurston's letters to Langston Hughes / Katherine Cottle -- Resources : Chronology of Zora Neale Hurston's life ; Works by Zora Neale Hurston ; Bibliography.