From 'Spy-glass' to 'Horizon': Tracking the Anthropological Gaze in Zora Neale Hurston

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Jacobs,Karen (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    1997
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Novel: A Forum on Fiction
    Journal Title Details:
    30(3) : 329-360.
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, Blacks, Literature, Ethnology, Cuba, Civilization, Hurston, Zora Neale, and Mules and Men (Book)
    Notes:
    "The 'spy-glass of Anthropology,' Zora Neale Hurston's telling metaphor for anthropological training under Franz Boaz during her Barnard years, is the most quoted and least interpreted image in a body of work remarkable for its rich configuration." --The Author

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