TY - BOOK AU - Cotera,María Eugenia TI - Native Speakers: Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita Gonzalez, and the Poetics of Culture SN - 9780292793842 AV - HQ1419 C683 2008eb U1 - 305.552089009730904 PY - 2021///] CY - Austin : PB - University of Texas Press, KW - American literature KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - Feminism KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Imaginary conversations KW - Minority women KW - Social conditions KW - Women and literature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Writing in the Margins of the Twentieth Century --; PART 1. Ethnographic Meaning Making and the Politics of Difference --; 1. Standing on the Middle Ground: Ella Deloria’s Decolonizing Methodology --; 2. “Lyin’ Up a Nation”: Zora Neale Hurston and the Literary Uses of the Folk --; 3. A Romance of the Border: J. Frank Dobie, Jovita González, and the Study of the Folk in Texas --; PART 2. Re-Writing Culture: Storytelling and the Decolonial Imagination --; 4. “All My Relatives Are Noble”: Recovering the Feminine in Waterlily --; 5. “De nigger woman is de mule uh de world”: Storytelling and the Black Feminist Tradition --; 6. Feminism on the Border: Caballero and the Poetics of Collaboration --; Epilogue. “What’s Love Got to Do with It?”: Toward a Passionate Praxis --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from South Dakota, Zora Neale Hurston, an African American woman from Florida, and Jovita González, a Mexican American woman from the Texas borderlands, achieved renown in the fields of folklore studies, anthropology, and ethnolinguistics during the 1920s and 1930s. While all three collaborated with leading male intellectuals in these disciplines to produce innovative ethnographic accounts of their own communities, they also turned away from ethnographic meaning making at key points in their careers and explored the realm of storytelling through vivid mixed-genre novels centered on the lives of women. In this book, Cotera offers an intellectual history situated in the "borderlands" between conventional accounts of anthropology, women's history, and African American, Mexican American and Native American intellectual genealogies. At its core is also a meditation on what it means to draw three women—from disparate though nevertheless interconnected histories of marginalization—into conversation with one another. Can such a conversation reveal a shared history that has been erased due to institutional racism, sexism, and simple neglect? Is there a mode of comparative reading that can explore their points of connection even as it remains attentive to their differences? These are the questions at the core of this book, which offers not only a corrective history centered on the lives of women of color intellectuals, but also a methodology for comparative analysis shaped by their visions of the world UR - https://doi.org/10.7560/718685 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292793842 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292793842/original ER -