More than anything, this is a book about authorship. How do we define who is an author or the author of a book? In this book, we have a contemporary editor, a collection of different other writers writing forewords and afterwords, we have Hurston acting in capacity as ethnographer, and we have Cudjo Lewis himself telling his story. But all these different voices have a varying impact on the final artifact of the book itself. What is the book here? Is it the text of Lewis […]