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Journal Article
Hitting \A Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick\: \Seraph on the Suwanee\, Zora Neale Hurston's Whiteface Novel
1997
Overview
[...]the novel is generally understood by black literary scholars as a contrivance in Hurston's canon and in African-American literary scholarship.1 This perspective undoubtedly results from Hurston's depiction of white protagonists instead of black ones. The narrator also informs us that Jim is twentyfive when he arrives in Sawley and near fifty when he leaves Arvay. [...]the inscription of Arvay and Jim's children's birdi dates in a family Bible provides clear historical markers. Nowhere would the pleasure be more intense than in Seraph, where she subverts multiple racial expectations. Since the characters in Seraph sound black, Hurston did not really abandon \"the source of her unique esthetic - black cultural tradition\" insofar as language is the medium of culture. New York Times reviewer Slaughter identifies her as a hysterical neurotic. Since her feelings of dejection arise from narcissistic deficiencies, I would instead identify her core problem as a narcissistic personality disorder.
