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Genevieve West

Biography

Genevieve West

M. Genevieve West is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English, Speech, and Foreign Languages at Texas Woman’s University. A scholar of Zora Neale Hurston’s work, West has contributed to prestigious academic journals such as African American Review, Amerikastudien/American Studies, Receptions and Women’s Studies. She is the author of one work of literary criticism, ZORA NEALE HURSTON AND AMERICAN LITERARY CULTURE, and the editor of Hurston's Harlem Renaissance short stories, HITTING A STRAIGHT LICK WITH A CROOKED STICK.

Genevieve West

Books by Genevieve West

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
by Zora Neale Hurston, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Genevieve West - Essays, Nonfiction

YOU DON'T KNOW US NEGROES is the quintessential gathering of provocative essays from one of the world’s most celebrated writers, Zora Neale Hurston. Spanning more than three decades and penned during the backdrop of the birth of the Harlem Renaissance, Montgomery bus boycott, desegregation of the military and school integration, Hurston’s writing articulates the beauty and authenticity of Black life as only she could. Collectively, these essays showcase the roles that enslavement and Jim Crow have played in intensifying Black people’s inner lives and culture rather than destroying it.