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Cargando... Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurstonpor Lucy Hurston
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One of the most beguiling and captivating figures of the twentieth century, Zora Neale Hurston gained fame as a bestselling author, anthropologist, journalist, and playwright. Her remarkable life is presented as never before in SPEAK, SO YOU CAN SPEAK AGAIN. An interactive package tracing Hurston’s journey from Eatonville, Florida, to her student days at Barnard College, to her emergence as a literary star and bestselling author and cultural icon during the Harlem Renaissance and her subsequent decline into obscurity, it contains beautifully crafted facsimiles of historic papers, handwritten notes, photographs, and much more. Readers will be able to hold in their hands the charred draft notes for the novel,Seraph on the Suwannee; open a Christmas card Hurston created for her friends; and read letters illuminating her relationships with intimate friends and fellow writers like Langston Hughes and Dorothy West. SPEAK, SO YOU CAN SPEAK AGAIN also provides the extraordinary opportunity to hear Hurston’s own voice talking about her life as a writer on several radio interviews, and, in a powerful interlude, singing a passionate rendition of a railroad worker’s chant she learned while collecting folklore in the Deep South. Interest in Hurston continues to soar. Her most famous book,Their Eyes Are Watching God, is now in development at Oprah Winfrey’s production company, Harpo, and is also being adapted for Broadway. The sales of her books attest to an ever-growing audience. Whether they are discovering Hurston for the first time or are devoted fans, readers will find hours of entertainment in SPEAK, SO YOU CAN SPEAK AGAIN. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Lucy Anne Hurston certainly did her famous Aunt proud in what she calls "… the first collaborative family-sanctioned project on the life and legend of Zora Neale Hurston…"
My neighborhood independent bookstore had a copy laying sideways on the biography shelf. Shrink-wrapped, I couldn't wait to get home listen to the accompanying CD full of interviews and Zora singing.
If that weren't enough, there are a ton of pull-out reproductions of letters, cards, scraps of notes and poems and other textural artifacts. There is so much information packed between the 36 pages, it's overwhelming.
Every page has a photograph of Zora, people important to her, or her family including an 1893 portrait of her parents.
There's inserts galore! How about a 1920 map of Eatonville; a reproduction of the 1921 Howard University magazine 'The Stylus with her first published story 'John Redding Goes To Sea', or a handwritten draft of the first chapter of 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' or a typed letter from Zora to DR. W.E. Du Bois? Wow!
The first 11 tracks on the CD feature interviews by Mary Margaret McBride on WEAF Radio, January 25, 1943 [WEAF became WNBC of New York City in 1946]. Tracks 12-25 are folk songs collected and sung by Zora Neale Hurston for the Joint Committee on Folk Arts of the WPA and Library of Congress- recorded in Jacksonville, Florida, on June 18, 1939. What an educational treat!
Then there's the text. In a four engine locomotive train, Lucy Anne Hurston's prose is the second engine pushing Zora's leading words and notions into the heart and consciousness of the reader. Competing effectively, and complementary to the photos, inserts and CD, she gives us a compelling and literate insight into her Auntie.
If you are a scrapbooking genealogist, historian, anthropologist, or just love a good biography, this book will not disappoint. If you think you've read everything on, from and about Zora Neale Hurston there even some never-before-published poems. And remember….
SPEAK, SO YOU CAN SPEAK AGAIN
Peace,
"Guided by the Ancestors"
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