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Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

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Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist and author. In 1925, shortly before entering Barnard College, Hurston became one of the leaders of the literary renaissance happening in Harlem, producing the short-lived literary magazine Fire!! along with Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman. This literary movement became the center of the Harlem Renaissance.Hurston applied her Barnard ethnographic training to document African American folklore in her critically acclaimed book Mules and Men along with fiction Their Eyes Were Watching God and dance, assembling a folk-based performance group that recreated her Southern tableau, with one performance on Broadway. Hurston was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to travel to Haiti and conduct research on conjure in 1937. Her work was significant because she was able to break into the secret societies and expose their use of drugs to create the Vodun trance, also a subject of study for fellow dancer/anthropologist Katherine Dunham who was then at the University of Chicago.In 1954 Hurston was unable to sell her fiction but was assigned by the Pittsburgh Courier to cover the small-town murder trial of Ruby McCollum, the prosperous black wife of the local lottery racketeer, who had killed a racist white doctor. Hurston also contributed to Woman in the Suwanee County Jail, a book by journalist and civil rights advocate William Bradford Huie.

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Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist and author. In 1925, shortly before entering Barnard College, Hurston became one of the leaders of the literary renaissance happening in Harlem, producing the short-lived literary magazine Fire!! along with Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman. This literary movement became the center of the Harlem Renaissance.Hurston applied her Barnard ethnographic training to document African American folklore in her critically acclaimed book Mules and Men along with fiction Their Eyes Were Watching God and dance, assembling a folk-based performance group that recreated her Southern tableau, with one performance on Broadway. Hurston was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to travel to Haiti and conduct research on conjure in 1937. Her work was significant because she was able to break into the secret societies and expose their use of drugs to create the Vodun trance, also a subject of study for fellow dancer/anthropologist Katherine Dunham who was then at the University of Chicago.In 1954 Hurston was unable to sell her fiction but was assigned by the Pittsburgh Courier to cover the small-town murder trial of Ruby McCollum, the prosperous black wife of the local lottery racketeer, who had killed a racist white doctor. Hurston also contributed to Woman in the Suwanee County Jail, a book by journalist and civil rights advocate William Bradford Huie.


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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale with an introduction by Holly Eley Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel and the best known work by...

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature,...

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Mules and Men

Zora Neale Hurston

Mules and Men is a treasury of black America's folklore as collected...

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Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (P.S.)

Zora Neale Hurston

First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity, Dust Tracks on a...

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I Love Myself When I Am Laughing...

Zora Neale Hurston

I Love Myself When I am Laughing... The most prolific African-American...

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Jonah's Gourd Vine

Zora Neale Hurston

John Buddy Pearson, a young Black man who becomes a popular pastor at Zion...

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Tell My Horse

Zora Neale Hurston

The author recounts her experiences as an initiate into the voodoo...

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Moses, Man of the Mountain

Zora Neale Hurston

A retelling of the story of Moses serves as an allegory for the struggle of...

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Seraph on the Suwanee

Zora Neale Hurston

This novel of turn-of-the-century white "Florida Crackers" marks a daring...

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The Complete Stories

Zora Neale Hurston

A collection of short stories, most of which appeared in literary magazines...

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Hurston: Novels and Stories (Library of America)

Zora Neale Hurston

When she died in poverty and obscurity in 1960, all of Zora Neale...

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Sweat: Written by Zora Neale Hurston (Women Writers, Texts & Contexts)

Zora Neale Hurston

Now frequently anthologized, Zora Neale Hurston's short story "Sweat"...

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Spunk: The Selected Stories of Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

A delightful collection portraying the energy and dynamism of black culture...

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Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States

Zora Neale Hurston

Paperback. Pub Date: October 2002 Pages: 320 in Publisher: Harper Perennial...

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Gilded Six-Bits (Perfect Presents Story-Gifts)

Zora Neale Hurston

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Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters

Assistant Professor of English Carla Kaplan

Zora Neale Hurston " I mean to live and die by my own mind," Zora Neale...

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Folklore, Memoirs and Other Writings: Mules and Men / Tell My Horse / Dust Tracks on a Road / Selected Articles (Library of America)

Zora Neale Hurston

The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and...

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Jonahs Gourd Vine Mules & Men Their Eyes

Zora Neale Hurston

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The Sanctified Church: The Folklore Writings of Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

The Sanctified Church is a collection of Zora Neale Hurston's essays...

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Lies And Other Tall Tales

Zora Neale Hurston

LIES AND OTHER TALL TALES These tales are so tall they touch the sky! From...

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Go Gator and Muddy the Waters: Writings by Zora Neale Hurston from the Federal Writers Project

Zora Neale Hurston

Gathers local folklore, folk songs, childrens games, and essays on race,...

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Skull Talks Back

Zora Neale Hurston

Do you dare to cross paths with ... An enchantress who can slip in and out...

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The Six Fools

Zora Neale Hurston

Based on a story collected by the author during her travels along the Gulf...

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The Three Witches

Zora Neale Hurston

The three bad witches are hungry! "Let's eat these children," they...

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Spunk: Three Tales by Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

"Gutsy, gritty and often very funny...irresistable theatricality."--Michael...

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Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas (Mela))

Zora Neale Hurston

Best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she also...

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Three Classic Works: Their Eyes Were Watching God / Dust Tracks on a Road / Mules and Men

Zora Neale Hurston

Features the author's novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God," her...

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de Turkey and de Law

Zora Neale Hurston

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality....


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