Moses, Man of the Mountain (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Zora Neale Hurston
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: African Americans, Culture, Freedom, Africa or Africans, Tradition, Magic or magicians, Power, personal or social, Politics, Racism, Race, Slavery or slaves, Leadership, Oppression, Kings, queens, or royalty, Ambition, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Biblical times, Egypt or Egyptians, Oral history
- Locales: Egypt, Holy Land, Mount Sinai
Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain is a novel about greatness, taking as one of its main themes the sacrifices that are required for a people to become great. The novel, despite some excellent passages, falls short of this goal. The conceptual problems Hurston had in putting this work together are summarized in the character of Moses himself. On one hand, she sees him as a hereditary Egyptian, and thus as an African. On the other hand, within the metaphor with which she begins and which allows the Hebrews to talk like African Americans, the Egyptians represent white plantation...
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