Hurston on the Horizon at KU

"Reading is not a transparent act. Critique studies is asking the general question about how one reads, whether you're reading to unearth something, as a reparative act, or with an openness...while criticism is about accessing and analyzing a text" - Kevin Quashie

"The narrative space [Hurston] creates for Kossola’s unburdening is sacred. Rather than insert herself into the narrative as the learned and probing cultural anthropologist...Zora Neale Hurston, in her still listening, assumes the office of a priest." - Deborah Plant

LIVE NOW: NEH Summer Scholars engage in a rich discussion of Dr. Ayesha Hardison's "The Neglect of an Icon: Rereading and Rethinking Seraph on the Suwanee." #Zora #BlackLiterature #BlackWomen #theSouth #Hurston2021

“What we want to know about [Hurston], we’re not going to find out through her field notes. Who she was as a social scientist precedes her academic training. There’s something about genius that you can’t explain." - Dr. Deborah Plant on “Hurston, Innovation, and Ethnography”