Parable of the Sower | Folk and Urban Communities in
In the following essay excerpt, Dubey identifies “current urban problems” in the changing communities of Parable of the Sower, and argues that “investing literature with broadbased social value” to resolve such dilemmas is problematic.
In “The Politics of Fiction, Anthropology, and the Folk: Zora Neale Hurston,” first published in 1991, Hazel Carby seeks to account for the recent academic revival of Zora Neale Hurston’s southern folk aesthetic. Carby argues that Hurston’s writing, locating authentic black community in the rural south, displaced the difficulties of representing the complex and contested black culture that was taking shape in the cities and that the current academic reclamation of Hurston’s work illustrates a parallel logic of displacement. Carby concludes with the suggestion that present-day...
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