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Hurston, Zora Neale - 1891?–60, African-American writer, b. Notasulga, Ala. She grew up in the pleasant all-black town of Eatonville, Fla. and, moving north, graduated from Barnard College, where she studied with Franz Boas. Her placid childhood and privileged academic background are often cited as major reasons for her work's general lack of stress on racism, a characteristic so unlike


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    Student Companion to Zora Neale Hurston » Read Now

    by Josie P. Campbell. 159 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the most controversial yet prominent figures associated with the Harlem Renaissance. This introductory study examines Hurston's contributions to that literary movement, as well as her role as mediator between the black and white worlds in which she lived...
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    Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (literary criticism) » Read Now

    by Harold Bloom. 122 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    -- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature
    -- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism
    -- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index
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    Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents » Read Now

    by Neal A. Lester. 176 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God highlights the vitality of African American culture. This casebook demonstrates how African Americans fashioned themselves individually and collectively to combat racism, classism, and sexism. With provocative documents that contextualize the complex...
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    Zora Neale Hurston: An Annotated Bibliography and Reference Guide » Read Now

    by Rose Parkman Davis. 210 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) is one of 20th-century America's foremost fiction and folklore writers. Though she was criticized by some of her contemporaries, including Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, her works are now frequently taught in literature courses and are widely admired for their style...
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    Social Rituals and the Verbal Art of Zora Neale Hurston » Read Now

    by Lynda Marion Hill. 274 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    In Social Rituals and the Verbal Art of Zora Neale Hurston, Dr. Hill examines Hurston's concept of "everyday-life drama" as a basis for understanding distinctive features of African-American folk expression. Readers familiar with Hurston's work will enjoy the unique way in which Dr. Hill analyzes...
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    Major Black American Writers through the Harlem Renaissance ("Zora Neale Hurston c. 1891-1960" begins on p. 102) » Read Now

    by Harold Bloom. 187 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Langston Hughes 85 Zora Neale Hurston 102 James Weldon Johnson...Introduction AS A NARRATIVE FICTION, Zora Neale Hurstons Their Eyes Were Watching God...that the fiercely...
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    Conflict and Resistance in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men, in Journal of American Folklore » Read Now

    by Susan Meisenhelder. 22 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...Conflict and Resistance in Zora Neale Hurstons Mules and Men While Mules...African American folk culture, Zora Neale Hurston carefully arranged her folktales...INTRODUCTION...
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    Zora Neale Hurston and the Post-Modern Self in 'Dust Tracks on a Road,' in African American Review » Read Now

    by Pierre A. Walker. 13 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Zora Neale Hurston and the post-modern self in Dust Tracks...In the last thirty-five years, Zora Neale Hurstons literary reputation has grown from...representation-although...
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    Dislocating the Color Line: Identity, Hybridity, and Singularity in African-American Narrative (Chap. 5 "Community and Contagion: Zora Neale Hurston's Risky Practice") » Read Now

    by Samira Kawash. 266 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This book provides a historical context for the recent resurgence of racial division by tracing the path of the color line as it appears in the narrative writings of African-Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In readings of slave narratives, "passing novels", and the writings of...
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    Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston » Read Now

    by Will Brantley. 298 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Shelter 133 5. ZORA NEALE HURSTON: The Ethics of Self- Representation...Porter, Lillian Smith, and Zora Neale Hurston -- through an intertextual examination...nation...
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    Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature (Chap. 8 "'Characteristics of Negro Expression': Zora Neale Hurston and the Negro Anthology") » Read Now

    by Michael North. 260 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    The Dialect of Modernism uncovers the crucial role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism. Rebelling against the standard language, and literature written in it, modernists, such as Joseph Conrad, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William...
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    The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism (Chap. 5 "Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text") » Read Now

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr. 290 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Examining the...
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    Language and Literature in the African American Imagination (Chap. 4 "Reassessing African American Literature through an Afrocentric Paradigm: Zora N. Hurston and James Baldwin") » Read Now

    by Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay. 214 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Drawing together scholars from communication, literature, philosophy, linguistics, and other fields, this edited collection examines the current thinking on African American literature and language. Some of the most significant writers and thinkers in the field have contributed their views on all...
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    The Harlem Renaissance: The One and the Many (Chap. 7 "'My Soul Was with the Gods and My Body in the Village': Zora Neale Hurston, Franz Boas, Melville Herskovits, and Ruth Benedict") » Read Now

    by Mark Helbling. 212 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    During the Harlem Renaissance, African-American culture flourished. The period gave birth to numerous significant and enduring creative works that were at once American and emblematic of the black experience in particular. Even though those who contributed to the Harlem Renaissance recognized that...

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