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Common among DlacK people at mat nme. A numoer ot mese peopletook drastic measures to escape the feelings of exclusion and passedfor white by means of their physical appearance， thus rejecting theirblack identity. The ex-colored man in James Weldon Johnsons novelfor instance， is a case in point. As a young boy， Johnsons proudanti-hero has never put the question of race in his mind because hehas always considered himself as white before an insensitive whiteteacher classifies him otherwise. The failure of the protagonist ofJohnsons novel to admit kinship with the black community leads tohis final alienation from Afro-Americans.
African Americans anxiety over their racial identity wasexacerbated by the Migration of the Negroes from the Southern ruralcommunities to the Northern industrial cities. Without the ruralSouthern genesis， blacks in the new environment of Northern urbancenters seemed to come from nowhere. Since the Great Migrationfrom the South， blacks have often been taken as an urban problem，a view that erodes Afro-Americans self-esteem and denies theircollective history. Some of Hurstons contemporaries among theblack literati maintained that the black folk music and behavior wereundignified and therefore became an impediment to the elevation ofthe race. They strived to behave more like the whites than the whiteswho flocked to the clubs and cabarets to be entertained by blackswhose performance based on Southern black folk traditions wasregarded and enjoyed as something alien and exotic. Focusing herattention on the black.
作者简介：
张玉红，1972年生，河南太康县人。文学博士，硕士生导师，河南大学外语学院副教授。1989—1996年就读于河南大学外语学院英语语言文学专业，1993年获文学学士学位，1996年获文学硕士学位并留校任教。2008年在上海外国语大学获文学博士学位后回河南大学任教。2009年2月进入河南大学外语学院外国语言文学博士后流动站。本人主要从事英美文学研究，尤其是英美戏剧研究。近年来发表学术论文10余篇，并主编或参编了教参3部，另主持或参加省级、厅级、校级科研项目近10项。
内容简介：
说起自己的学术之路，首先，我要感谢我的博士生导师、上海外国语大学的虞建华教授。是虞老师给了我继续深造的机会，给了我实现自己人生梦想的舞台，也是虞老师不经意的一句话为迷茫的我指明了前进的方向。2004.年的那个春天，白玉兰盛开的季节，我平生走进了梦寐以求的上海外国语大学去参加博士生入学考试，见到虞老师就被他和蔼可亲的笑容和话语深深打动。在为数众多的考生中，我是幸运的。2004年的那个秋天，桂花飘香的季节，我满怀希望地走进了上外美丽宁静的校园。求学的机会来之不易。重回求学生涯的我如饥似渴地汲取着知识的甘露。虞老师的博学多识、循循善诱如润物的春雨，滋润着我不断地成长。
目录：
序言
前言
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 The Resurrection of Zora Neale Hurston
1.2 Hurstons Folklore Fiction
1.3 The Significance of Reevaluating Hurstons Folklore Fiction
Chapter Two The Prominence of Folkloric Representations in Hurstons Fiction
2.1 The Entry of Black Folklore into Hurstons Fiction
2.2 The Definition and Categorization of Folklore
2.3 The Literary Types of Folklore in Hurstons Fiction
2.4 The Linguistic Types of Folklore in Hurstons Fiction
2.5 The Religious Types of Folklore in Hurstons Fiction
2.6 The Action Types of Folklore in Hurstons Fiction
Chapter Three Folklore as a Survival Strategy
3.1 The Vogue of Black Folk Culture During the Harlem Renaissance
3.2 The Dilemma of African American Writers and Hurstons Masking Strategy
3.3 The Criticism of White Cultural Values
3.4 The Deconstruction of the Stereotyped Negro Images
Chapter Four Folklore as a Means of Reconstructing Black Cultural Identity
4.1 American Culture， African American Culture and African American Folklore
4.2 Racism and Black Cultural Identity
4.3 The Socio-Historical Context of Reconstructing Black Cultural Identity
4.4 Reconstructing Black Cultural Identity on Difference
Chapter Five Conclusion
Bibliography
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