In “How It Feels to be Colored Me,” what is Hurston describi…
In “How It Feels to be Colored Me,” what is Hurston describing when she writes, “I follow those heathen—follow them exultingly. I dance wildly inside myself; I yell within, I whoop; I shake my assegai above my head. I hurl it true to the mark yeeeeooww! I am in the jungle and living in the jungle way. My face is painted red and yellow and my body is painted blue. My pulse is throbbing like a war drum. I want to slaughter something—give pain, give death to what, I do not know” (NAAL92 p.958).