Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
Autor de Sus ojos miraban a Dios
Sobre El Autor
Zora Neale Hurston was born in 1901 in Eatonville, Fla. She left home at the age of 17, finished high school in Baltimore, and went on to study at Howard University, Barnard College, and Columbia University before becoming one of the most prolific writers in the Harlem Renaissance. Her works mostrar más included novels, essays, plays, and studies in folklore and anthropology. Her most productive years were the 1930s and early 1940s. It was during those years that she wrote her autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road, worked with the Federal Writers Project in Florida, received a Guggenheim fellowship, and wrote four novels. She is most remembered for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. In 2018, her previously unpublished work, Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo, was published. She died penniless and in obscurity in 1960 and was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1973, her grave was rediscovered and marked and her novels and autobiography have since been reprinted. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Zora Neale Hurston
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... and Then Again When I Am Lookin Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader (1979) 424 copias
A Teacher's Guide to Their Eyes Were Watching God: Common-Core Aligned Teacher Materials and a Sample Chapter (2014) 8 copias
An Introduction to Their Eyes Were Watching God (The Big Read) National Endowment For The Arts (2008) 6 copias
Polk County: A Comedy of Negro Life on a Sawmill Camp with Authentic Negro Music in Three Acts 3 copias
Sweat - A Short Story;Including the Introductory Essay 'A Brief History of the Harlem Renaissance' (2022) 2 copias
The Complete Stories by Hurston, Zora Neale. (Harper Perennial Modern Classics,2008) [Paperback] 2 copias
Lawing and Jawing 1 copia
Jook 1 copia
The Sermon in the Valley 1 copia
The Complete Stories 1 copia
Fast and Furious 1 copia
Woofing 1 copia
Drenched in Light 1 copia
Forty Yards 1 copia
Hurston, Zora Neal Archive 1 copia
The Fiery Chariot 1 copia
The Bone Contention 1 copia
Bahamas 1 copia
The "Pet Negro" system 1 copia
Railroad Camp 1 copia
Cock Robin 1 copia
The House That Jack Built 1 copia
Their Eyes Are Watching God 1 copia
Hurston Zora Neale 1 copia
“The Eatonville Anthology” 1 copia
Lenox Avenue 1 copia
Spears: A Play in Two Acts 1 copia
The First One: A Play in One Act 1 copia
Cold Keener: A Review 1 copia
Filling Station 1 copia
Heaven 1 copia
Mr. Frog 1 copia
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Black Female Playwrights: An Anthology of Plays before 1950 (Blacks in the Diaspora) (1989) — Contribuidor — 43 copias
Best of The Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing {anthology} (2002) — Contribuidor — 43 copias
Women in the Trees: U.S. Women's Short Stories About Battering and Resistance, 1839-1994 (1996) — Contribuidor — 39 copias
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Nombre legal
- Hurston, Zora Neale Lee
- Otros nombres
- HURSTON, Zora NEALE
HURSTON, Zora NEALE Lee
NEALE HURSTON, Zora
HURSTON, Zora - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1891-01-07
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1960-01-28
- Lugar de sepultura
- Garden of Heavenly Rest Cemetery, Fort Pierce, Florida, USA
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Notasulga, Alabama, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Fort Pierce, Florida, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Notasulga, Alabama, USA
Eatonville, Florida, USA
Westfield, New Jersey, USA
Fort Pierce, Florida, USA
New York, New York, USA
Eau Gallie, Florida, USA (mostrar todos 8)
Jamaica
Haiti - Educación
- Morgan Academy (1918)
Howard University (1920)
Barnard College (BA|Anthropology|1927)
Columbia University - Ocupaciones
- novelist
short-story writer
playwright
essayist
folklorist
teacher (mostrar todos 8)
maid
freelance writer - Relaciones
- Hurston, Lucy (niece)
Boas, Franz (teacher)
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan (friend) - Organizaciones
- American Folklore Society
American Anthropological Society
American Ethnological Society
Zeta Phi Beta
Bethune-Cookman University
Paramount Studios (writer) (mostrar todos 12)
Patrick Air Force Base (librarian)
Fort Pierce Chronicle
Lincoln Park Academy (teacher)
Library of Congress (librarian)
North Carolina Central University (professor)
WPA - Premios y honores
- Zeta Phi Beta
Guggenheim Fellowship (1937)
Bethune-Cookman College Award for Education and Human Relations (1956)
Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities - Agente
- Ann Watkins
Jean Parker Waterbury - Biografía breve
- See Hurston's biography in the online Encyclopedia of Alabama.
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Debates
February Group Read: Their Eyes Were Watching God en 2015 Category Challenge (marzo 2015)
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- Popularidad
- #683
- Valoración
- 4.0
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- ISBNs
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- Idiomas
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- Favorito
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(Available in Print: (1937), 10/24/2000; PUBLISHER: Amistad; First Hardcover Edition; ISBN: 978-0060199494; PAGES: 256; Unabridged.)
(Available as Digital)
*This edition-Audio: COPYRIGHT: 10/31/2005; ISBN: 9780060842765; PUBLISHER: Harper Audio; DURATION: 06:44:30; PARTS: 7; Unabridged; FILE SIZE: 194251 KB
TV FILM ADAPTAION: GENRE: Drama; BASED ON: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; WRITTEN BY: Suzan-Lori Parks, Misan Sagay, Bobby Smith Jr.; DIRECTED BY: Darnell Martin;
PRESENTED BY: Oprah Winfrey; STARRING: Halle Berry, Ruben Santiago-Hudson; Michael Ealy; MUSIC BY: Terence Blanchard; COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States;
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: English; EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Oprah Winfrey, Kate Forte; PRODUCER: Matthew Carlisle; CINAMAPHOTOGRAPHY: Checco Varese; EDITOR: Peter C. Frank; RUNNING TIME: 113 minutes; PRODUCTION COMPANY: Harpo Films; DISTRIBUTOR Touchstone
SERIES:
No
MAJOR CHARACTERS:
(Not comprehensive. I was listening rather than reading, so may not have spelled names correctly)
Janie Crawford – Protagonist
Pheoby – Janie’s friend
Nanny – Janie’s grandmother
Johnny Taylor - Janie’s neighbor
Logan Killicks – Nanny’s choice for Janie’s suitor
Jody (Joe) Starks – Janie’s love interest
Vergible Woods (Tea Cake) – Janie’s love interest
Mrs. Turner – Janie’s neighbor
Motorboat – Teacake’s friend
SUMMARY/ EVALUATION:
I entered this book on my list of ‘want to reads” after reading “The Paris Library” where it was mentioned multiple times, and understandably; philosophical and poetic, it’s a great story.
AUTHOR:
Zora Neale Hurston – “(January 7, 1891[1]: 17 [2]: 5 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo.[3] The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays.” __Wikipedia
NARRATOR:
Ruby Dee: “Ruby Dee (October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist.[1] She originated the role of "Ruth Younger" in the stage and film versions of A Raisin in the Sun (1961). Her other notable film roles include The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) and Do the Right Thing (1989).” __Wikipedia
Ruby's narration was fabulous!
GENRE:
Classic Literature; Fiction; African American Fiction; Harlem Renaissance; Women’s Literature;
LOCATIONS:
Soth Florida; Eatonville, Florida; Jacksonville, Florida; Belle Glade (Muck City), Florida; Everglades
TIME FRAME:
Early 20th Century
SUBJECTS:
1928 Okeechobee hurricane; Gender roles; Family relations; Love; Romance; Survival; Marriage; African American; Post American Civil War; Post-Slavery Florida; Trial; Beauty; Liberation; Eye dialect
DEDICATION:
"To Henry Allen Moe"
SAMPLE QUOTATION:
From Chapter 1
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by time. That is the life of men.
Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
So the beginning of this was a woman and she had come back from burying the dead. Not the dead of sick and ailing with friends at the pillow and the feet. She had come back from the sodden and the bloated; the sudden dead, their eyes flung wide open in judgement.
The people all saw her come because it was sundown. The sun was gone, but he had left his footprints in the sky. It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgement.
Seeing the woman as she was made them remember the envy they had stored up from other times. So they chewed up the back parts of their minds and swallowed with relish. They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song.
'What she doin' coming back here in dem overhalls? Can't she fin no dress to put on?--Where's dat blue satin dress she left here in?--Where all dat money her husband took and died and left her?--What dat ole forty year ole 'oman doin' wid her hair swingin' down her back lak some young gal?--Where she left dat young lad of a boy she went off here wid?--Though she was goint to marry?--Where he left her?--What he done wid all her money?--Betcha he off wid some gal so young she ain't even got no hairs--why she don't stay in her class?--"
RATING: 4 stars.
STARTED READING – FINISHED READING
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