The Gilded Six-Bits | The Pastoral and the Picaresque in Zora Neale Hurston's ‘‘The Gilded Six-Bits’’
In the following essay, Evora Jones examines history as told through folktales, in this case by opposing the simplicity of country life with the sophisticated and superficial life of the city.
The history of a people, recorded through folklore, reveals unique, significant, complex, and even virtuous behavior patterns of a culture. This kind of history is one of the contributions of Zora Neale Hurston anthropologist and folklorist, and includes literature reflecting the pastoral and the picaresque. It also includes literature which maintains readability, relevance, and its rightful position among belles lettres. Characteristic of such history is Zora Neale Hurston's ‘‘The Gilded Six-Bits.’’
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