| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780912670669 | | Publisher: The Feminist Press | | Publish Date: 11/1/1979 | | Buy.com Sku: 30246889 | | Item#: RDSTMV | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9H x 6L x 1T |
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| | | The most prolific African-American woman author from 1920 to 1950, Hurston was praised for her writing and condemned for her independence, arrogance, and audaciousness. This unique anthology, with 14 superb examples of her fiction, journalism, folklore, and autobiography, rightfully establishes her as the intellectual and spiritual leader of the next generation of black writers. In addition to six essays and short stories, the collection includes excerpts from Dust Tracks on the Road; Mules and Me; Tell My Horse; Jonah's Gourd Vine; Moses, Man of the Mountain; and Their Eyes Were Watching God. The original commentary by Alice Walker and Mary Helen Washington, two African-American writers in the forefront of the Hurston revival, provide illuminating insights into Hurston-the writer, the person-as well as into American social and cultural history.
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This anthology of Hurston's work was edited by Alice Walker.
| Author Bio| Zora Neale Hurston | | Zora Neale Hurston was born in an all-black Florida town where her father was the mayor. Her mother died when she was 9, her father married a woman with whom she didn't get along, and she spent her childhood living with various relatives. When she was 14, she began to support herself, working as a manicurist, a waitress, a maid, and finally a wardrobe girl in a theatrical company. She became a part-time student at Howard University, where she began writing. In 1925 she moved to New York City to work as secretary to the popular novelist Fannie Hurst and attend Barnard College on a scholarship. She studied anthropology and, after graduation, went back south to study folklore. Later she also traveled to the Caribbean. Hurston was an important member of the Harlem Renaissance, writing fiction that was based on her own personal experiences and that also reflected her Southern background, her racial heritage, and her strong interest in black folklore. She was married twice, both times very briefly, finding that marriage and career were not compatible. Her life changed when, in 1948, she was accused of corrupting a minor; she was acquitted but devastated by the humiliating publicity--"I care nothing for anything any more," she wrote in a letter. She left New York, dropped all her friends, and returned to Florida, where for the rest of her life she struggled to survive, working as a maid, borrowing money, taking odd jobs. She died after a stroke in the St. Lucie County Welfare Home, and was buried in an unmarked grave. She died a pauper, but, as the minister said in her funeral eulogy, "The Miami paper said she died poor. But she died rich. She did something." |
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