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Zora Neale Hurston (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) | Sermon | Folklore Bloom’s Modern Critical Views African American Samuel Taylor John Keats Poets: Coleridge Jamaica Kincaid Wheatley–Tolson Joseph Conrad Stephen King African American Contemporary Poets Rudyard Kipling Poets: Julio Cortázar Milan Kundera Hayden–Dove Stephen Crane Tony Kushner Edward Albee Daniel Defoe Ursula K. Le Guin Dante Alighieri Don DeLillo Doris Lessing Isabel Allende Charles Dickens C. S. Lewis American and Emily Dickinson Sinclair Lewis Canadian Women E. L. Doctorow Norman Mailer Poets, John Donne and the Bernard Malamud 1930–present 17th-Century Poets David Mamet American Women Fyodor Dostoevsky Christopher Poets, 1650–1950 W. E. B. DuBois Marlowe Hans Christian George Eliot Gabriel García Andersen T. S. Eliot Márquez Maya Angelou Ralph Ellison Cormac McCarthy Asian-American Ralph Waldo Emerson Carson McCullers Writers William Faulkner Herman Melville Margaret Atwood F. Scott Fitzgerald Arthur Miller Jane Austen Sigmund Freud John Milton Paul Auster Robert Frost Molière James Baldwin William Gaddis Toni Morrison Honoré de Balzac Johann Wolfgang Native-American Samuel Beckett von Goethe Writers The Bible George Gordon, Joyce Carol Oates William Blake Lord Byron Flannery O’Connor Jorge Luis Borges Graham Greene George Orwell Ray Bradbury Thomas Hardy Octavio Paz The Brontës Nathaniel Hawthorne Sylvia Plath Gwendolyn Brooks Robert Hayden Edgar Allan Poe Elizabeth Barrett Ernest Hemingway Katherine Anne Browning Hermann Hesse Porter Robert Browning Hispanic-American Marcel Proust Italo Calvino Writers Thomas Pynchon Albert Camus Homer Philip Roth Truman Capote Langston Hughes Salman Rushdie Lewis Carroll Zora Neale Hurston J. D. Salinger Miguel de Cervantes Aldous Huxley José Saramago Geoffrey Chaucer Henrik Ibsen Jean-Paul Sartre Anton Chekhov John Irving William Shakespeare G. K. Chesterton Henry James William Shakespeare’s Kate Chopin James Joyce Romances Agatha Christie Franz Kafka George Bernard Shaw Bloom’s Modern Critical Views Mary Wollstonecraft Ivan Turgenev Walt Whitman Shelley Mark Twain Oscar Wilde Alexander Solzhenitsyn John Updike Tennessee Williams John Steinbeck Kurt Vonnegut Tom Wolfe Jonathan Swift Derek Walcott Virginia Woolf Amy Tan Alice Walker William Wordsworth Alfred, Lord Tennyson Robert Penn Warren Jay Wright Henry David Thoreau H. G. Wells Richard Wright J. R. R. Tolkien Eudora Welty William Butler Yeats Leo Tolstoy Edith Wharton Émile Zola Bloom’s Modern Critical Views ZORA NEALE HURSTON New Edition Edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of the Humanities Yale University Editorial Consultant, Robert P. Waxler Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations: Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest—New Edition Copyright © 2007 by Infobase Publishing Introduction © 2007 by Harold Bloom All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For more information contact: Bloom’s Literary Criticism An imprint of Infobase Publishing 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest / edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom. p. cm. — (Bloom’s modern critical interpretations) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7910-9616-1 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. 2. Psychiatric hospital patients in literature. 3. Mentally ill in literature.—Criticism and interpretation. I. Bloom, Harold. II. Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest PS3561.E667O5328 2008 813’.54—dc22 2007045157 Bloom’s Literary Criticism books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk quantities for businesses, associations, institutions, or sales promotions. Please call our Special Sales Department in New York at (212) 967-8800 or (800) 322-8755. You can find Bloom’s Literary Criticism on the World Wide Web at http://www.chelseahouse.com. Cover design by Printed in the United States of America Bang BCL 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is printed on acid-free paper. All links and web addresses were checked and verified to be correct at the time of pub- lication. Because of the dynamic nature of the web, some addresses and links may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. Contents Editor’s Note vii Introduction 1 Harold Bloom The Folk Preacher and Folk Sermon Form in Zora Neale Hurston’s Dust Tracks on a Road 7 Deborah G. Plant Zora Neale Hurston: A Voice of Her Own/ An Entertainment In Herself 23 Daniel J. Sundahl “‘ . Ah said Ah’d save de text for you’”: Recontextualizing the Sermon to Tell (Her)story in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God 35 Dolan Hubbard The Compelling Ambivalence of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God 51 William M. Ramsey Projecting Gender: Personification in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston 65 Gordon E. Thompson vi Contents From Mule Bones to Funny Bones: The Plays of Zora Neale Hurston 89 John Lowe Conflict and Resistance in Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men 105 Susan E. Meisenhelder Zora Neale Hurston 131 Michael Awkward and Michelle Johnson Hitting “A Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick”: Seraph on the Suwanee, Zora Neale Hurston’s Whiteface Novel 143 Claudia Tate Vodou Imagery, African-American Tradition and Cultural Transformation in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God 159 Daphne Lamothe Socioeconomics in Selected Short Stories of Zora Neale Hurston 181 Laurie Champion “The porch couldn’t talk for looking”: Voice and Vision in Their Eyes Were Watching God 197 Deborah Clarke Chronology 217 Contributors 221 Bibliography 225 Acknowledgments 229 Index 231 Editor’s Note My Introduction highly praises Hurston for her vitality, individualism, and freedom from ideology. Deborah Clarke credits Hurston for redefining African American rhetoric, after which Laurie Champion locates some of Hurston’s challenges to societal oppression in selected stories. Seraph on the Suwanee, a minor Hurston novel, is interpreted by Claudia Tate as a “seditious joke on racialism,” while John Lowe attempts to rescue Hurston’s plays from neglect. Dolan Hubbard centers upon Janie’s sermon in Their Eyes Were Watching God, after which Gordon E. Thompson examines personification in Hurston. Folk sermonizing in Dust Tracks on a Road is noted by Deborah G. Plant, while Susan Meisenhelder addresses herself to Mules and Men. Daniel J. Sundahl defends Hurston’s refusal to protest for the sake of protest, after which Daphne Lamothe finds Vodou imagery in Their Eyes . William M. Ramsey gazes at Hurston’s own ambivalences toward and in Their Eyes . , while Michael Awkward and Michelle Johnson contribute with a joint overview of Hurston. vii HAROLD BLOOM Introduction zora neale hurston (1891–1960) I Hurston was a vitalist, enormously alive. Sometimes I find myself thinking of her as a Shakespearean character, so much does she now belong to American literary legend. Of all major African-American writers, she appears to have possessed the most personal verve, a life-force wonderfully embodied in Their Eyes Were Watching God (surely one of the great titles). Flamboyant writers—Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, Hemingway—manifest a curious relationship of the work to the life, one that breaks down the wavering demarcation between art and reality. Hurston—novelist, anthropologist, folklorist—had a fierce dislike of racial politics, black and white, and loathed any attempt to subsume her individuality under any category whatsoever. We all of us pay high prices for our freedom from cant, social dogma, and societal morality. Hurston, passionate and driven by a daemon, plunged into a terrible final decade, in which she alienated most of her friends, admirers, readers. She opposed desegregation, arguing that it would degrade black education. Rejected by the publishing world and by foundations, she died in a welfare home and was buried in an unmarked grave. Her mourners all have been retrospective. Ralph Ellison, a great writer and a warm acquaintance, once at dinner together told me he could not understand my admiration for Their Eyes Were Watching God, a novel he found alternately overwritten and underwritten. I recall replying that the book’s vitalism disarmed me: if the style was uneven, the abundant surge of outrageous will to live in the heroine Janie had a cosmic urgency, a persuasiveness I could not resist. Hurston is that rare 1.
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