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. "Plot Summaries". Zora Neale Hurston Archive. Center for Humanities and Digital Research, University of Central Florida.
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.

Further reading

• Levecq, Christine (1994-01-01). ""Mighty Strange Threads in Her Loom": Laughter and Subversive Heteroglossia in Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain". Texas Studies in Literature and Language 36 (4): 436–461.
• Farebrother, Rachel (2007-09-01). "Moses and nation-building Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain and Edward Said's Freud and the Non-European". Comparative American Studies An International Journal 5 (3): 333–356. doi:10.1179/147757007X223990. ISSN 1477-5700.
• Vásquez, Sam (2012-01-01). Stiff Words Frighten Poor Folk: Humor, Orality, and Gender in Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain. New Caribbean Studies. Palgrave Macmillan US. pp. 25–53. doi:10.1057/9781137031389_2#page-1. ISBN 9781349436323.