I explore the relationship between Hurston as ethnographer and Kossola as subject in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,” posthumously published in 2018 but extant since 1931. Barracoon reveals how Hurston wrestles with her dual identity as fiction writer and cultural anthropologist as it crafts a narrative of slavery and liberation around conjured memory and the ethnographic relationship. The essay considers how Hurston harnesses her rhetorical powers to convince Kossola to share recollections of his life “in Affica soil,” and examines how the themes of loss and recovery emerge in Hurston’s recording of Kossola’s narrative of capture, enslavement, and free life in Africatown, the construction of an archive of transatlantic slavery, and the extraliterary narrative of Alice Walker’s reclamation of Hurston’s own voice into the canon.

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“在非洲土壤中”：佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿 (Zora Neale Hurston) 的《Barracoon》中的奴隶制、民族志和复兴：“最后的黑色货物”的故事

我在 Zora Neale Hurston 的 Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” 中探讨了作为民族志学家的赫斯顿和作为主题的 Kossola 之间的关系，该书于 2018 年死后出版，但自 1931 年以来一直存在。 Barracoon 揭示了赫斯顿如何与她作为小说作家和文化人类学家，因为它围绕着被召唤的记忆和人种学关系制作了关于奴隶制和解放的叙述。这篇文章考虑了赫斯顿如何利用她的修辞能力来说服科索拉分享他“在非洲土地上”的生活回忆，并研究了在赫斯顿记录科索拉在非洲城的俘虏、奴役和自由生活的叙述中失去和恢复的主题是如何出现的，跨大西洋奴隶制档案的建设，