Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
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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 In 2018, her previously unpublished work, Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo, was published.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) 422 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
The Bone Contention 1 copia
The Sermon in the Valley 1 copia
Fast and Furious 1 copia
Woofing 1 copia
Lawing and Jawing 1 copia
Forty Yards 1 copia
The Fiery Chariot 1 copia
Railroad Camp 1 copia
The "Pet Negro" system 1 copia
Drenched in Light 1 copia
Hurston, Zora Neal Archive 1 copia
The Complete Stories 1 copia
Jook 1 copia
Bahamas 1 copia
Spears: A Play in Two Acts 1 copia
Hurston Zora Neale 1 copia
“The Eatonville Anthology” 1 copia
The First One: A Play in One Act 1 copia
The House That Jack Built 1 copia
Cold Keener: A Review 1 copia
Filling Station 1 copia
Their Eyes Are Watching God 1 copia
Heaven 1 copia
Mr. Frog 1 copia
Lenox Avenue 1 copia
Cock Robin 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
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The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology (1967) — Contribuidor — 174 copias
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Contribuidor — 159 copias
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contribuidor — 147 copias
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Contribuidor — 121 copias
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Contribuidor — 100 copias
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contribuidor — 93 copias
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contribuidor — 83 copias
Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories About the Keepers of Our Traditions (1994) — Contribuidor — 78 copias
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Contribuidor — 75 copias
Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (1991) — Contribuidor — 69 copias
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
Centers of the Self: Stories by Black American Women, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (1994) — Contribuidor — 28 copias
Weird Women: Volume 2: 1840-1925: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers (2) (2021) — Contribuidor — 26 copias
The Unforgetting Heart: An Anthology of Short Stories by African American Women (1859-1993) (1993) — Contribuidor — 23 copias
The Roots of African American Drama: An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938 (African American Life Series) (1990) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
Story in America, 1933-1934: Thirty-Four Selections from the American Issues of "Story," the Magazine Devoted Solely to… (1934) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
New World Journal #5 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
The Netzahualcoyotl News, Volume 1, Number 1 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
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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February Group Read: Their Eyes Were Watching God en 2015 Category Challenge (marzo 2015)
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- #686
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- ISBNs
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- Idiomas
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Janie is a young African-American woman with dreams of romance. She experiences a longing "for the world to be made." (p. 11) These dreams are circumvented by her grandmother who marries her off to Logan Killicks, a well-off older man so that Janie can have a more secure life. Janie tries to love him, but finally realizes that "marriage does not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman." (p. 25)
She eventually runs off twice to find a better, more adventurous life. The first one, Joe Starks, intends to become a rich and important person. Although his plans prove successful, the life Janie lives becomes suffocating. It is only when she meets Tea Cake, who has nothing but love to offer, does she learn to live fully and adventurously. "She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net....so much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see."
The book gives a first hand account of the African American experience of the early 20th century- the racism and classism(based on not only money but racial features-i.e. Mrs. Turner who "built an altar to Cuaucasian characteristics for all" p. 145) experienced, the search for a voice and a place to make a free and independent life, as well as the misogyny evident in the lives of women. (For instance, in a fit of jealousy, Tea Cake whips Janie and then is proud that due to her light skin, every bruise is visible.)
This brilliant novel cocludes that the gossip that surrounds her come from people that have never truly experienced life or love. "Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got to find out about livin fu theyselves." (p. 192)
How true! There is a reason this book is one of the list of "The Greatest Books".… (más)