Dust tracks on a road vs The foremother figure in early black women's literature: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Dust tracks on a road Dust tracks on a road Zora Neale Hurston · 1942 ★★★★☆ 4.1 328 pages · ≈ 6 h 04 m · Challenging
“Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me.”

xii, 308, 16 pages: 21 cm

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Cover of The foremother figure in early black women's literature The foremother figure in early black women's literature Jacqueline K. Bryant · 1999 176 pages · ≈ 3 h 16 m · Challenging

Originally published in 1999 The Foremother Figure in Early Black Women's Literature looks at how stereotypical foremother figure exists in nineteenth century American literature. The book argues that older black woman…

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Goodreads 4.1 (8467) —
Hardcover 4.1 (13) —
Google Books 2.0 (1) —
Apple Books 4.5 (27) —

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Ratings 8467 —
Editions 33 11
Citations 168 —
Film adaptations 1 —
Want to read 20574 —
Reading it now 908 —
Written reviews 693 —
Wikipedia attention 259 —
Pages 328 176

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