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Writers on Writing Interview with Deborah G. Plant
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Sunday, May 19, 2019
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Interview with Deborah G. Plant
With Dr. Brenda M. Greene, Executive Director
The Center for Black Literature at 糖心原创, CUNY
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Dr. Brenda Greene interviews Dr. Deborah G. Plant, African American scholar, literary critic and editor of Barracoon: The Story of the Last 芒鈧揃lack Cargo芒鈧� written by novelist, folklorist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston.
About the Program
Dr. Brenda Greene interviews Dr. Deborah G. Plant, African American scholar, literary critic and editor of Barracoon: The Story of the Last 芒鈧揃lack Cargo芒鈧� written by novelist, folklorist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston.脗聽Barracoon sheds light on the inhumanity of slavery as told from the true story of Kossola (Cudjo Lewis), one of the last survivors of the Atlantic slave trade. It adds another literary work to the canon of freedom narratives by enslaved Blacks in this country. Greene and Plant discuss Plant芒鈧劉s motivation for editing the never-before-published nonfiction work and the significance of Kossola芒鈧劉s voice and Hurston芒鈧劉s research methodology.
About the Author
Deborah G. Plant is an African American and Africana Studies scholar and literary脗聽critic whose special interest is the life and works of Zora Neale Hurston.脗聽She is editor of Barracoon: The Story of the Last 芒鈧揃lack脗聽Cargo,芒鈧� a New York Times best seller, by Zora Neale Hurston; author of脗聽Alice脗聽Walker: A Woman for Our Times (2017), a philosophical biography of Alice Walker, and editor of The Inside Light: New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston脗聽(2010); and author of Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit (2007) and Every脗聽Tub Must Sit On Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston脗听(1995).