Chielozona Eze is Professor and Director of Africana Studies at Carleton College, USA, and Research Associate at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. He has authored 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals and five monographs, one of which was on Alain Locke and the Harlem Renaissance.

Refreshingly theorized and analytically astute, this book breaks new ground in Zora Neale Hurston studies. It offers a philosophically centered reframing of not only Hurston’s life, career, and works, but also her influences on major black women novelists and poets.

• Introduction 1: Hurston and the Radical Nature of Desire 2: The Interior Life, the Self, and the Other 3: Self-Revelation and Community 4: Womanism: Desire as Care and Therapy 5: Desire and the Body as Our Home 6: Desire and the Radicalness of the Ordinary 7: Desire, Ecstatic Bodies, and Infinity Conclusion BibliographyIndex

Chielozona Eze is Professor and Director of Africana Studies at Carleton College, USA, and Research Associate at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. He has authored 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals and five monographs, one of which was on Alain Locke and the Harlem Renaissance.

Refreshingly theorized and analytically astute, this book breaks new ground in Zora Neale Hurston studies. It offers a philosophically centered reframing of not only Hurston’s life, career, and works, but also her influences on major black women novelists and poets.

• Introduction 1: Hurston and the Radical Nature of Desire 2: The Interior Life, the Self, and the Other 3: Self-Revelation and Community 4: Womanism: Desire as Care and Therapy 5: Desire and the Body as Our Home 6: Desire and the Radicalness of the Ordinary 7: Desire, Ecstatic Bodies, and Infinity Conclusion BibliographyIndex

Chielozona Eze is Professor and Director of Africana Studies at Carleton College, USA, and Research Associate at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. He has authored 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals and five monographs, one of which was on Alain Locke and the Harlem Renaissance.

Refreshingly theorized and analytically astute, this book breaks new ground in Zora Neale Hurston studies. It offers a philosophically centered reframing of not only Hurston’s life, career, and works, but also her influences on major black women novelists and poets.

• Introduction 1: Hurston and the Radical Nature of Desire 2: The Interior Life, the Self, and the Other 3: Self-Revelation and Community 4: Womanism: Desire as Care and Therapy 5: Desire and the Body as Our Home 6: Desire and the Radicalness of the Ordinary 7: Desire, Ecstatic Bodies, and Infinity Conclusion BibliographyIndex