Hurston on Black Expressive Life and World-Making
Apr 18, 2023•20 min•Ep. 14
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Episode description
A comment on Zora Neale Hurston's essay "Characteristics of Negro Expression," with particular emphasis on how those characteristics - angularity, adornment - capture forms of resistance and world-making in an anti-black world. How does expressive life embody a sense of living in its fullest sense, rather than simply surviving regimes of white supremacy?
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