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Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

Autor/a de Their Eyes Were Watching God

83+ obres 28,904 Membres 532 Ressenyes 94 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Zora Neale Hurston was born in 1901 in Eatonville, Fla. She left home at the age of 17, finished high school in Baltimore, and went on to study at Howard University, Barnard College, and Columbia University before becoming one of the most prolific writers in the Harlem Renaissance. Her works mostra'n més included novels, essays, plays, and studies in folklore and anthropology. Her most productive years were the 1930s and early 1940s. It was during those years that she wrote her autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road, worked with the Federal Writers Project in Florida, received a Guggenheim fellowship, and wrote four novels. She is most remembered for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. In 2018, her previously unpublished work, Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo, was published. She died penniless and in obscurity in 1960 and was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1973, her grave was rediscovered and marked and her novels and autobiography have since been reprinted. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) 18,977 exemplars
Mules and Men (1935) 1,083 exemplars
The Complete Stories (1995) 464 exemplars
Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939) 437 exemplars
Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934) 421 exemplars
Seraph on the Suwanee (1948) 320 exemplars
Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life (1931) 172 exemplars
The Sanctified Church (1981) 120 exemplars
Lies and Other Tall Tales (2005) 94 exemplars
Go Gator and Muddy the Water (1999) 90 exemplars
Magnolia Flower (2022) 47 exemplars
The Six Fools (2005) 46 exemplars
The Three Witches (2006) 46 exemplars
The Making of Butterflies (2023) 18 exemplars
Poker! (2011) 12 exemplars
Zora Neale Hurston Boxed Set (2022) 11 exemplars
The Gilded Six-Bits (1933) 10 exemplars
Bookmarks in the Pages of Life (2001) 6 exemplars
Spunk [play] (2016) 3 exemplars
Stories (1996) 2 exemplars
Drenched in Light 1 exemplars
Bahamas 1 exemplars
The Bone Contention 1 exemplars
The Fiery Chariot 1 exemplars
Forty Yards 1 exemplars
Lawing and Jawing 1 exemplars
Woofing 1 exemplars
Fast and Furious 1 exemplars
Jook 1 exemplars
Railroad Camp 1 exemplars
Cock Robin 1 exemplars
Hurston Zora Neale 1 exemplars
Lenox Avenue 1 exemplars
Filling Station 1 exemplars
Heaven 1 exemplars
Mr. Frog 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions915 exemplars
The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Col·laborador — 774 exemplars
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992) — Col·laborador — 743 exemplars
The New Negro: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (1925) — Col·laborador — 433 exemplars
Written by Herself, Volume I: Autobiographies of American Women (1992) — Col·laborador — 426 exemplars
The Norton Book of Women's Lives (1993) — Col·laborador — 409 exemplars
Great Short Stories by American Women (1996) — Col·laborador — 408 exemplars
The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (1994) — Col·laborador — 404 exemplars
Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature (1991) — Col·laborador — 397 exemplars
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Col·laborador — 275 exemplars
Russell Baker's Book of American Humor (1993) — Col·laborador — 207 exemplars
Modern American Memoirs (1995) — Col·laborador — 189 exemplars
The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (2019) — Col·laborador — 166 exemplars
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997) — Col·laborador — 142 exemplars
The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories (1991) — Col·laborador — 121 exemplars
Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White (1998) — Col·laborador — 118 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Col·laborador — 117 exemplars
Downhome: An Anthology of Southern Women Writers (1995) — Col·laborador — 115 exemplars
Voices from the Harlem Renaissance (1976) — Col·laborador — 106 exemplars
Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960 (1987) — Col·laborador — 102 exemplars
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Col·laborador — 98 exemplars
The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Col·laborador — 98 exemplars
American Short Stories (1976) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions95 exemplars
The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World (2001) — Col·laborador — 89 exemplars
Braided Lives: An Anthology of Multicultural American Writing (1991) — Col·laborador — 85 exemplars
Honey, Hush! An Anthology of African American Women's Humor (1657) — Col·laborador — 76 exemplars
Rotten English: A Literary Anthology (2007) — Col·laborador — 75 exemplars
Women and Fiction: Volume 2 (1978) — Col·laborador — 73 exemplars
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Col·laborador — 68 exemplars
200 Years of Great American Short Stories (1975) — Col·laborador — 68 exemplars
Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor (2006) — Col·laborador — 65 exemplars
The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (1990) — Col·laborador — 64 exemplars
American Negro Short Stories (1966) — Col·laborador — 61 exemplars
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library (2021) — Col·laborador — 60 exemplars
Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural (2000) — Col·laborador — 57 exemplars
The Vintage Book of American Women Writers (2011) — Col·laborador — 56 exemplars
The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women (1993) — Col·laborador — 45 exemplars
Harlem's Glory: Black Women Writing, 1900-1950 (1996) — Col·laborador — 42 exemplars
Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance (1994) — Col·laborador — 40 exemplars
Southern Dogs and Their People (2000) — Col·laborador — 39 exemplars
The Virago Book of Wanderlust and Dreams (1998) — Col·laborador — 36 exemplars
Graphic Classics: African-American Classics (2011) — Col·laborador — 31 exemplars
Miami Noir: The Classics (2020) — Col·laborador — 24 exemplars
Almost Touching the Skies: Women's Coming of Age Stories (2000) — Col·laborador — 21 exemplars
Ebony Rising: Short Fiction of the Greater Harlem Renaissance Era (2004) — Col·laborador — 16 exemplars
Restless Spirits: Ghost Stories by American Women, 1872-1926 (1996) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
The Story Pocket Book (1944) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers (2018) — Director — 9 exemplars
The Saturday Evening Post Stories: 1950 (1950) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
The Word Lives On: A Treasury of Spiritual Fiction (1951) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
American Short Stories (Oxford Literature Resources) (1992) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
New World Journal, Vol. 1, No.4 (1979) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
New World Journal #5 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
The Netzahualcoyotl News, Volume 1, Number 1 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

Etiquetat

Coneixement comú

Nom normalitzat
Hurston, Zora Neale
Nom oficial
Hurston, Zora Neale Lee
Altres noms
HURSTON, Zora NEALE
HURSTON, Zora NEALE Lee
NEALE HURSTON, Zora
HURSTON, Zora
Data de naixement
1891-01-07
Data de defunció
1960-01-28
Lloc d'enterrament
Garden of Heavenly Rest Cemetery, Fort Pierce, Florida, USA
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Notasulga, Alabama, USA
Lloc de defunció
Fort Pierce, Florida, USA
Llocs de residència
Notasulga, Alabama, USA
Eatonville, Florida, USA
Westfield, New Jersey, USA
Fort Pierce, Florida, USA
New York, New York, USA
Eau Gallie, Florida, USA (mostra-les totes 8)
Jamaica
Haiti
Educació
Morgan Academy (1918)
Howard University (1920)
Barnard College (BA|Anthropology|1927)
Columbia University
Professions
novelist
short-story writer
playwright
essayist
folklorist
teacher (mostra-les totes 8)
maid
freelance writer
Relacions
Hurston, Lucy (niece)
Boas, Franz (teacher)
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan (friend)
Organitzacions
American Folklore Society
American Anthropological Society
American Ethnological Society
Zeta Phi Beta
Bethune-Cookman University
Paramount Studios (writer) (mostra-les totes 12)
Patrick Air Force Base (librarian)
Fort Pierce Chronicle
Lincoln Park Academy (teacher)
Library of Congress (librarian)
North Carolina Central University (professor)
WPA
Premis i honors
Zeta Phi Beta
Guggenheim Fellowship (1937)
Bethune-Cookman College Award for Education and Human Relations (1956)
Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities
Agent
Ann Watkins
Jean Parker Waterbury
Biografia breu

Membres

Converses

February Group Read: Their Eyes Were Watching God a 2015 Category Challenge (març 2015)

Ressenyes

My review of this book can be found on my YouTube Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/DP2x7m7JLjg

Enjoy!
 
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booklover3258 | Hi ha 342 ressenyes més | Feb 20, 2024 |
Back in 1927 and 1928, anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston interviewed a man called Cudjo Lewis in Africatown, Alabama. The elderly Lewis, whose birth name was Kossola, had been captured in 1860 in his native Africa, in what is now Benin, and transported aboard the very last slave ship to Louisiana. In 1927, he held the tragic distinction of being the last known survivor of those "cargo" who had been aboard. Hurston visited Lewis and, over the course of several months, recorded his fascinating but heartbreaking history, but she was unable to find a publisher willing to include either Lewis' speech as transcribed or descriptions of Africans' own involvement in the slave trade, and the book's release was aborted — until 2018.

It feels awkward to express affection for a book whose roots lie in dehumanizing hardship and misery, but I truly treasure this book and what it contributes to history. Lewis had an amazing memory, and the reader will be astounded at the level of detail he was able to recall, well into his late eighties, about his early life and his native culture. Hurston's patience and kindness shine during times when Lewis didn't feel like opening up because he had to mend a fence or work in the garden, as well as on the days when the heaviness of his losses overwhelm him to the extent that he was unable to speak at all. The scenes in which they just sit around eating peaches are so heartwarmingly wholesome. This is a quick, insightful read, and once you recognize the patterns, Lewis' speech is not difficult at all to understand, so it's unfortunate that was a reason given for it not having been published nearly 100 years ago. Highly recommended.
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ryner | Hi ha 65 ressenyes més | Feb 17, 2024 |
Drawn from nearly four decades of her work, this anthology is a collection of both previously published and unpublished essays, criticisms, and articles by Zora Neale Hurston, the legendary Harlem Renaissance author, which unveils her evolving style as an archivist and writer. Edited and annotated by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Genevieve West, the essays in the collection are grouped by themes and cover a range of topics, including race and gender, politics, and folklore, from the Harlem Renaissance to the early years of the Civil Rights movement. This collection is fascinating both in what it reveals about Ms. Hurston – for example, her conventional views on gender and critique of feminism, her Republican politics, and her distaste for the NAACP and desegregated schools – and about the turbulent times she chronicled.… (més)
 
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bschweiger | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Feb 4, 2024 |

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Autors associats

Langston Hughes Contributor
Cudjo Lewis Interviewee
Dorothy Waring Contributor
Henry Louis Jr Gates Editor, Afterword, Introduction
Alice Walker Contributor, Editor, Foreword
Mary Helen Washington Foreword, Introduction
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Editor, Afterword
Carla Kaplan Editor, Introduction
Maya Angelou Introduction
Sieglinde Lemke Introduction
Tayari Jones Foreword
Genevieve West Introduction
Christopher Myers Illustrator
Christian Clayton Cover artist
Faith Ringgold Illustrator
Leonard Jenkins Illustrator
Ann Weinstock Cover designer
T. Charles Erickson Cover photographer
David Diaz Cover artist
Valerie Boyd Contributor
Ruby Dee Reader, Narrator
Holly Eley Introduction, Afterword
Scott McKowan Cover artist
Zadie Smith Introduction
Jerry Pinkney Illustrator
Robert E. Hemenway Contributor
Arnold Rampersad Foreword, Contributor
Robin Miles Narrator
Beatrice Sherman Contributor
Phil Strong Contributor
Miguel Covarrubias Illustrator
Franz Boas Preface
Darwin T. Turner Introduction
Ishmael Reed Introduction
Rita Dove Foreword
Gregg Kulick Cover designer
Ossie Davis Narrator
Arthur B. Spingarn Contributor
Lou Thompson Contributor
Carl Van Vechten Contributor

Estadístiques

Obres
83
També de
73
Membres
28,904
Popularitat
#692
Valoració
4.0
Ressenyes
532
ISBN
318
Llengües
11
Preferit
94

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