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How Long Does it Take to Read An Analysis of Zora Heale Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 32 minutes to read An Analysis of Zora Heale Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression by Mercedes Aguirre

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The racial prejudices of 1930s America were many, and included a common presumption that African American art was unoriginal – merely poorly copying white culture. African-American novelist, anthropologist and essayist Zora Neale Hurston crushingly evaluated such assumptions in her 1934 essay ‘Characteristics of Negro Expression.’ While Hurston’s approach and premises seem in many ways dated to modern readers, the essay still shows an incisive mind carefully evaluating arguments and cutting them down to size. African-American art of the time did not – Hurston influentially argued – play by the same rules as white art, so it could not meaningfully be discussed by ‘white’ notions of aesthetic value. Where white European tradition views art as something fixed, Hurston saw African-American art works as a distinctive form of mimicry, reshaping and altering the original object until it became something new and novel. In this way, she contended, African-American creative expression is a process that generates its own form of originality – turning borrowed material into something original and unique. By carefully evaluating the relevance of previous arguments, Hurston showed African American artistic expression in an entirely new light.

How long is An Analysis of Zora Heale Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression?

An Analysis of Zora Heale Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression by Mercedes Aguirre is 92 pages long, and a total of 23,184 words.

This makes it 31% the length of the average book. It also has 28% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read An Analysis of Zora Heale Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 6 minutes to read An Analysis of Zora Heale Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression aloud.

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An Analysis of Zora Heale Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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