Abstract

This article examines the 1930s and 1940s Hollywood studio reception of the works of African American novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. It argues that Hurston’s 1948 novel Seraph on the Suwanee was conceived by the author to both conform to and contest the racial politics of Hollywood narrative film.

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