Moses, Man of the Mountain

Moses, Man of the Mountain is a 1939 novel by African American novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston.[1] The novel rewrites the story of the Book of Exodus of Moses and the Israelites from an Afro-American perspective.[1][2]The novel applies a number of different motifs and themes commonly addressed in African American culture, subverting the Moses story.[2]

Writing in the context of Hitler's rise to power, critic Mark Christian Thompson describes the novel as critiquing the authoritarian tactics of states, and becomes a metaphor critiquing the premises of National Socialism.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Plot Summaries". Zora Neale Hurston Archive. Center for Humanities and Digital Research, University of Central Florida.
  2. 1 2 Ewing, Adam (2014-01-01). "Lying Up a Nation: Zora Neale Hurston and the Local Uses of Diaspora". Callaloo 37 (1): 130–147. doi:10.1353/cal.2014.0015. ISSN 1080-6512.
  3. Thompson, Mark Christian (2004-01-01). "National Socialism and Blood-Sacrifice in Zora Neale Hurston's "Moses, Man of the Mountain"". African American Review 38 (3): 395–415. doi:10.2307/1512442.

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