Discussion post: How does Kossula’s time in the United States contrast with his time in Africa?

March 30, 2023March 30, 2023 Discipline: American Literature

How does Kossula’s time in the United States contrast with his time in Africa?

This week, we will engage with the second half of Kossula’s story. That said, the questions from last week still stand. In addition, I want you to consider how his time in the United States contrasts with his time in Africa. Questions to consider (of course, feel free to come up with your own and don’t answer the same ones you did last week!): 
How does Kossula’s story relate to others we have read? What are similarities & differences?
How does consumption work in the text?
What role does land/nature play Kossula’s life?
What correlations can you draw between music in this text and the ways in which music has been portrayed in our other works?
How does Kossula’s story portray women?
How have law and paperwork failed him?
What do you make of Hurston’s use of the vernacular, meaning Kossula’s own dialect?
How does violence work in the story?
How does Hurston assert that freedom is tenuous for African Americans?
What are your thoughts on the folktails that conclude the narrative?

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