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Zora Neale Hurston's 1942 autobiography 'Dust Tracks on a Road' received negative criticisms from even her most ardent admirers. Literary critics lambasted the book for its apparent unreliability, assimilationist racial politics and inconsistent or fragmentary nature. While these criticisms about 'Dust Tracks on a Road' are valid, readers can appreciate the book from a post-structuralist point of view. 'Dust Tracks' portrays Hurston as an individual with many moods who is in conflict with the world in which she lives and who resists reduction to a coherent, consistent unity.