carla kaplan?ey have been very interested in, and i have to say a little bit less this novel than in some of her demographic works. one of the things that distinguishes hurston's career is how multi-generic she is. she works across almost every possible genre of american writing. she even wrote some early poetry. it's not her best stuff, b she did write some early poetry. she worked as a journalist on a number of really important cases and situations as a journalist. she wrote her novel, she wrote her memoirs, but she also worked throughout her career as a folklorist and sometimes taking it into the theater, sometimes taking it into writing, and in much, but she's interested in doing is documenting this distinctive speech of people in different parts of the country, of people with different backgrounds and it's been extensively looked at by some linguists to try to trade exactly what she was reporting and when, why she considered is so important. .. it's a wonderful question. i have a take of this