Foot Tracks on the Ocean: Zora Neale Hurston and the Creation of an African-American Transcultural Identity

This project focuses on African American and Afro- Hispanic literature and folklore. Specifically, I employ Fernando Ortiz’s theory of transculturation. Ortiz makes the case that a new Afro- Cuban identity is created with the intermingling of African, Spanish and native inhabitants of Cuba. Using Or...

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Main Author: Coloma Penate, Patricia
Format: Others
Published: Digital Archive @ GSU 2012
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Online Access:http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/91
http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1097&context=english_diss