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- catalog abstract "Zora Neale Hurston is a literary legend. One of the leading forces of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston was also one of the most widely acclaimed Black authors in America from the mid twenties to the mid forties. She faded into obscurity in the subsequent decades, but literary figures and scholars in the 1970s revived her work and introduced a whole generation to her brilliance. Today she is the most widely taught Black woman writer in the canon of American literature. Born in the all-Black town of Eatonville, Florida, of which her father was mayor, Hurston was intensely proud. She became the first Black student at Barnard College, where she earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology. She conducted significant research, interviews, and fieldwork relating to Black cultures of the United States and the Caribbean. In her writings, instead of bemoaning the frustrations of the Black experience, Hurston chose to celebrate the many cultures of her people as well as the richness of their verbal expressions. Although Hurston died poor and forgotten in 1960, the visibility of the feminist movement and the interest of women writers such as Alice Walker - who was responsible for providing a headstone for Hurston's unmarked grave in 1974 - were instrumental in reestablishing Hurston's place in African-American literature. Hurston's life and work are revealed through the reviews and essays contained in Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and K.A. Appiah have chosen reviews of her works from such important publications of her days as The Crisis, New Masses, New Republic, the New York Herald Tribune, The New York Times Book Review, Opportunity, and Saturday Review of Literature. Hurston's first novel, Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934), earned comments ranging from "most vital" to "a disappointment," although the reviewers consistently praised her use of dialect and language. This unique collection includes reviews of Mules and Men (1935), the first collection of African-American folklore published by an African American. Their Eyes Were Watching God, her 1973 novel that addressed a woman's desire for independence and individuality, was favorably reviewed by Alain Locke, the first Black Rhodes scholar and one of Hurston's professors at Howard University, and unfavorably reviewed by Richard Wright, who testily complained that the book was addressed to a white audience. The autobiographical Dust Tracks On a Road (1942) was received favorably, with comments on Hurston's "gutsy language." Reviews of Seraph on the Suwanne, Hurston's 1948 novel featuring primarily white characters, are also included, as well as those of earlier works such as Tell My Horses and Moses, Man of the Mountain. The essays presented here were published between 1982 and 1992 by academics, authors, and critics. They provide discussions and analysis, at greater length, of such factors as Hurston's language, characters, voice, and her ability to reflect the reality of Black women's lives.".
- catalog contributor b4184706.
- catalog contributor b4184707.
- catalog contributor b4184708.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description ""The drum with the man skin": Jonah's gourd vine / Eric J. Sundquist -- The emergent voice: the word within its texts / Karla Holloway -- Zora Neale Hurston: changing her own words / Cheryl A. Wall -- "I love the way Janie Crawford left her husbands": emergent female hero / Mary Helen Washington -- Wandering: Hurston's search for self and method / Susan Willis -- Thresholds of difference: structures of address in Zora Neale Hurston / Barbara Johnson -- Breaking out of the conventions of dialect / Gayl Jones -- Their eyes were watching God: Hurston and the speakerly text / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Language, speech, and difference in Their eyes were watching God / Cynthia Bond -- Listening and living: Reading and experience in Their eyes were watching God / Maria Tai Wolff -- Lines of descent; Dissenting lines / Deborah E. McDowell -- Autoethnography: the an-archic style of Dust tracks on a road / Francoise Lionnet-McCumber -- Seraph on the Suwanee / Lillie Howard -- Workings of the spirit: conjure and the space of Black women's creativity / Houston A. Baker, Jr.".
- catalog description "Hurston's first novel, Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934), earned comments ranging from "most vital" to "a disappointment," although the reviewers consistently praised her use of dialect and language. This unique collection includes reviews of Mules and Men (1935), the first collection of African-American folklore published by an African American. Their Eyes Were Watching God, her 1973 novel that addressed a woman's desire for independence and individuality, was favorably reviewed by Alain Locke, the first Black Rhodes scholar and one of Hurston's professors at Howard University, and unfavorably reviewed by Richard Wright, who testily complained that the book was addressed to a white audience.".
- catalog description "In her writings, instead of bemoaning the frustrations of the Black experience, Hurston chose to celebrate the many cultures of her people as well as the richness of their verbal expressions. Although Hurston died poor and forgotten in 1960, the visibility of the feminist movement and the interest of women writers such as Alice Walker - who was responsible for providing a headstone for Hurston's unmarked grave in 1974 - were instrumental in reestablishing Hurston's place in African-American literature. Hurston's life and work are revealed through the reviews and essays contained in Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and K.A. Appiah have chosen reviews of her works from such important publications of her days as The Crisis, New Masses, New Republic, the New York Herald Tribune, The New York Times Book Review, Opportunity, and Saturday Review of Literature.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-319) and index.".
- catalog description "Jonah's gourd vine (1934) / Martha Gruening; Estelle Felton; Andrew Burris; Margaret Wallace -- Mules and men (1935) / Henry Lee Moon; Lewis Gannett; H.I. Brock -- There eyes were watching God (1937) / Richard Wright; Alain Locke; Lucille Tompkins; Sterling Brown; Sheila Hibben; Otis Ferguson -- Tell my horse (1938) / Elmer Davis -- Moses, man of the mountain (1939) / Louis Untermeyer; Percy Hutchinson -- Dust tracks on the road (1942) / Phil Strong; Beatrice Sherman -- Seraph on the Suwanee (1948) / Frank G. Slaughter; Worth Tuttle Hedden.".
- catalog description "The autobiographical Dust Tracks On a Road (1942) was received favorably, with comments on Hurston's "gutsy language." Reviews of Seraph on the Suwanne, Hurston's 1948 novel featuring primarily white characters, are also included, as well as those of earlier works such as Tell My Horses and Moses, Man of the Mountain. The essays presented here were published between 1982 and 1992 by academics, authors, and critics. They provide discussions and analysis, at greater length, of such factors as Hurston's language, characters, voice, and her ability to reflect the reality of Black women's lives.".
- catalog description "Zora Neale Hurston is a literary legend. One of the leading forces of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston was also one of the most widely acclaimed Black authors in America from the mid twenties to the mid forties. She faded into obscurity in the subsequent decades, but literary figures and scholars in the 1970s revived her work and introduced a whole generation to her brilliance. Today she is the most widely taught Black woman writer in the canon of American literature. Born in the all-Black town of Eatonville, Florida, of which her father was mayor, Hurston was intensely proud. She became the first Black student at Barnard College, where she earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology. She conducted significant research, interviews, and fieldwork relating to Black cultures of the United States and the Caribbean.".
- catalog extent "xv, 330 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Zora Neale Hurston.".
- catalog identifier "1567430155 :".
- catalog identifier "1567430287 (pbk.) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Zora Neale Hurston.".
- catalog isPartOf "Amistad literary series".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Amistad : Distributed by Penguin USA,".
- catalog relation "Zora Neale Hurston.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States".
- catalog subject "813/.52 20".
- catalog subject "African Americans in literature.".
- catalog subject "Folklore in literature.".
- catalog subject "Hurston, Zora Neale Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PS3515.U789 Z963 1993".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Southern States History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents ""The drum with the man skin": Jonah's gourd vine / Eric J. Sundquist -- The emergent voice: the word within its texts / Karla Holloway -- Zora Neale Hurston: changing her own words / Cheryl A. Wall -- "I love the way Janie Crawford left her husbands": emergent female hero / Mary Helen Washington -- Wandering: Hurston's search for self and method / Susan Willis -- Thresholds of difference: structures of address in Zora Neale Hurston / Barbara Johnson -- Breaking out of the conventions of dialect / Gayl Jones -- Their eyes were watching God: Hurston and the speakerly text / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Language, speech, and difference in Their eyes were watching God / Cynthia Bond -- Listening and living: Reading and experience in Their eyes were watching God / Maria Tai Wolff -- Lines of descent; Dissenting lines / Deborah E. McDowell -- Autoethnography: the an-archic style of Dust tracks on a road / Francoise Lionnet-McCumber -- Seraph on the Suwanee / Lillie Howard -- Workings of the spirit: conjure and the space of Black women's creativity / Houston A. Baker, Jr.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Jonah's gourd vine (1934) / Martha Gruening; Estelle Felton; Andrew Burris; Margaret Wallace -- Mules and men (1935) / Henry Lee Moon; Lewis Gannett; H.I. Brock -- There eyes were watching God (1937) / Richard Wright; Alain Locke; Lucille Tompkins; Sterling Brown; Sheila Hibben; Otis Ferguson -- Tell my horse (1938) / Elmer Davis -- Moses, man of the mountain (1939) / Louis Untermeyer; Percy Hutchinson -- Dust tracks on the road (1942) / Phil Strong; Beatrice Sherman -- Seraph on the Suwanee (1948) / Frank G. Slaughter; Worth Tuttle Hedden.".
- catalog title "Zora Neale Hurston : critical perspectives past and present / edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K.A. Appiah.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".