Zora Neale Hurston Quote
Responding to Wright’s critique, Hurston claimed that she had wanted at long last to write a black novel, and not a treatise on sociology. It is this urge that resonates in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon and Beloved, and in Walker’s depiction of Hurston as our prime symbol of racial health—a sense of black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings, a sense that is lacking in so much black writing and literature. In a tradition in which male authors have ardently denied black literary paternity, this is a major development, one that heralds the refinement of our notion of tradition: Zora and her daughters are a tradition-within-the-tradition, a black woman’s voice.
Responding to Wright’s critique, Hurston claimed that she had wanted at long last to write a black novel, and not a treatise on sociology. It is this urge that resonates in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon and Beloved, and in Walker’s depiction of Hurston as our prime symbol of racial health—a sense of black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings, a sense that is lacking in so much black writing and literature. In a tradition in which male authors have ardently denied black literary paternity, this is a major development, one that heralds the refinement of our notion of tradition: Zora and her daughters are a tradition-within-the-tradition, a black woman’s voice.
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