Whose “Folk” Are They Anyway?
Whose “Folk” Are They Anyway?
Zora Neale Hurston and Lady Augusta Gregory in the Atlantic World
Drawing on insights from gender and performance studies, this chapter uses the careers and writings of Florida’s Zora Neale Hurston and Ireland’s Lady Augusta Gregory to examine the creation of both Black and Green Atlantics. By exploring their work and subsequent public reputations, it reveals how powerful notions of Irish and black, especially southern black, identity have been generated, disseminated, and redeployed around the Atlantic World, often with recourse to similar invocations of agrarianism, religiosity, and resistance (cultural and political) to oppression. The chapter also offers a pointed critique of the tendency to ignore or marginalize women in much Atlantic Studies.
Keywords: US South, Atlantic World, Black Atlantic, Green Atlantic, Atlantic Studies, Gender Studies, Performance Studies, folklore, Zora Neale Hurston, Lady Augusta Gregory
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