{"product_id":"the-chase-and-ruins-zora-neale-hurston-in-honduras-hardcover","title":"The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSharony Green\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fascinating look at a pivotal period in Zora Neale Hurston's life that reimagines her complicated legacy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZora Neale Hurston, an anthropologist and writer best known for her classic novel \u003ci\u003eTheir Eyes Were Watching God\u003c\/i\u003e, led a complicated life often marked by tragedy and contradictions. When both she and her writing fell out of favor after the Harlem Renaissance, she struggled not only to regain an audience for her novels but also to simply make ends meet. In \u003ci\u003eThe Chase and Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e, Sharony Green uncovers an understudied but important period of Hurston's life: her stay in Honduras in the late 1940s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the eve of an awful accusation that nearly led to her suicide, Hurston fled to Honduras in search of a lost Mayan ruin. During her yearlong trip south of the US border, she appears to have never found the ruin she was chasing. But by escaping the Jim Crow south to Honduras, she avoided racist violence in the United States while still embracing her privilege--and power--as a US citizen in postwar Central America. While in Honduras, Hurston wrote \u003ci\u003eSeraph on the Suwanee\u003c\/i\u003e, her final novel and her only book to feature white characters, in an attempt to appeal to Hollywood's growing appetite for \"crackerphilia\" (stories about poor white folks) and to finally secure herself some financial stability. In a letter to her editor, Hurston wrote that in Honduras, she may not have found the Mayan ruin she was looking for, but she finally found herself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHurston's experience in Honduras has much to teach us about Black women's lives and the thorny politics of postwar America as well as America's long and complicated entanglement with Central America. In an attempt to find historical meaning in an extraordinary woman's conceptions of herself in a changing world, Green unearths letters, diaries, literary writings, research reports, and other archival materials. \u003ci\u003eThe Chase and Ruins \u003c\/i\u003eencourages us to reckon with and reimagine Hurston's fascinating life in all of its complexity and contradictions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning writer \u003cb\u003eSharony Green\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of history at the University of Alabama. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eRemember Me to Miss Louisa: Hidden Black-White Intimacies in Antebellum America\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 9.24 x 6.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 03, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47389335453874,"sku":"9781421446660","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/5ace2c98e28ff0f7ed8e65981828b2be.webp?v=1777929266","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-chase-and-ruins-zora-neale-hurston-in-honduras-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}