Zora Neale Hurston's now-classic novel about Janie Crawford, the granddaughter of an ex-slave, and her three husbands: Mr. Killicks, Mayor Starks and, finally, Tea Cake--the love of her life. The novel is set in a black community in rural Florida, and the characters speak in dialect--a technique that inspired both anger and praise from other black ...
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Refusing to compromise in spite of society's expectations, Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams, who offers not diamonds, but a packet of flowering seeds...
Zorah Neale Hurston's 1942 autobiography is a lively account of her rich and extraordinary life, from her impoverished childhood in rural Flora to her position as one of the major figures in the Harlem Renaissance.
Published in 1938, Hurston's second book about black folklore chronicles her own experiences with voodoo in Haiti and Jamaica. She also writes about the politics of the islands.
These stories, written during the years 1921 to 1960, reflect Hurston's major interests--folklore, feminism, jazz, black history, and culture. As in her novels, Hurston employs rich language, inventive metaphors, and black American dialect to bring her characters to life. This collection includes several stories that have never been published ...
Hurston recounts her own spirited version of the life of Moses, based on the events in Exodus, as an allegory about slavery, freedom, and the black experience.
John Buddy Pearson, a Baptist minister, is a good preacher but a bad husband. His adulterous adventures are condemned by the black society of his southern town--something he is unable to comprehend. Hurston's first novel was published in 1934.
A book of folktales about love, slavery, faith, family, race, and community, collected in the late 1920s, represents a large part of the author's literary legacy and details African American life in the rural South.
This powerful collection includes Zora Neale Hurston's essays on African-American folklore, music, voodoo, and legend, as well as on the Southern Black Christian Church in which she was raised.
A special feature of this collection of works by Zora Neale Hurston is the first complete and unexpurgated edition of her 1942 autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road. Tell My Horse, Mules and Men, and selected articles are included also. Features a brief essay on the texts and detailed notes.
Unusual among Hurston's writings, this novel features a white protagonist: a depressed woman in Florida who manages to acquire a measure of self-esteem.
Zorah Neale Hurston's 1942 autobiography is a lively account of her rich and extraordinary life, from her impoverished childhood in rural Flora to her position as one of the major figures in the Harlem Renaissance.
A team of literary and artistic visionaries adapt for children this tale about three bad witches, two brave children and their grandma, three feisty hound dogs, and one clever snake. Full color.
Based on a story collected by Hurston during her travels in the Gulf States during the 1930s, this outrageous funny tale is the story about a dashing young man who finds foolish folks aplenty "and" true love. Full color.
These eight stories--which include intense love stories, stories of family relationships, and insightful pictures of black life in the South--were written between 1924 and 1942. The title story won several awards when it was published in 1925.
From the hidden back roads of the rural South come six scary tales featuring spooky characters that will leave a creepy impression on even the bravest of readers. Illustrations.
The only collaboration between the two brightest lights of the Harlem Renaissance--Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes In 1930, two giants of African American literature joined forces to create a lively, insightful, often wildly farcical look inside a rural Southern black community--the three-act play "Mule Bone." In this hilarious story, Jim ...
The first in the two-volume collection brings together novels and stories, a chronology of Hurston's life, detailed notes, and an essay on the text. Includes JONAH'S GOURD VINE, THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, MOSES, SERAPH ON THE SUWANEE, and a rich selection of short stories that illustrate Hurston's unique fusion of folk tradition and literary ...
Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K. A. Appiah, this book contains reviews and critical essays on the work of Zora Neale Hurston, the African-American writer of the Harlem Renaissance whose works were forgotten and later rediscovered. The essays in this collection treat her novels, memoirs, and folklore and they place her work in historical and ...
Zora Neale Hurston's anthropological work is showcased in this humorous, enjoyable picture book illustrated by Christopher Myers. In one of her many varied pursuits, Hurston traveled across the American South collecting all sorts of tales and stories, some of which have been memorialized here with brightly colored pictures. From talk of the ...
“ I mean to live and die by my own mind,” Zora Neale Hurston told the writer Countee Cullen. Arriving in Harlem in 1925 with little more than a dollar to her name, Hurston rose to become one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance, only to die in obscurity. Not until the 1970s was she rediscovered by Alice Walker and other ...
MAXnotes. . . - offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature - present material in an interesting, lively fashion - are written by literary experts who currently teach the subjects - are designed to stimulate independent thinking by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions - enhance understanding and enjoyment of the ...
From 1938 to 1939, Zora Neale Hurston worked in Florida as a "relief reporter" for the Federal Writers Project. Here are her writings from that period--on race, folklore, writing, and the social position of blacks--as well as a biographical essay by the editor.
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