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Cheryl R Hopson
Explores the creativity and life of anthropologist, folklorist and novelist Zora Neale Hurston.
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Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece is perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature. Published as part of a beautifully designed series…
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Joyce Markovics
"Find out about Zora Neal Hurston, a pioneering writer and anthropologist, in this biography for young readers. Learn about her life and uncover how she used the power of her…
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This vibrant first novel by Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most influential African-American writers, is reissued with a new introduction by Jesmyn Ward.
Sandra Wallus Sammons
Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, anthropologist, folklorist, and playwright who captured the true essence of African-Americans in the early twentieth century. Although her career was short lived and she…
The fascinating world of one of the most enigmatic literary figures of the 20th century comes alive through her letters to her Harlem Renaissance friends including Langston Hughes, Alain Locke…
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Robert W. Croft
Anthropologist and author Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) is one of the most significant African American writers of the 20th century.
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Lara Antal,Lara Antal
A biography of African American author Zora Neale Hurston.
One of the greatest writers of our time. –Toni Morrison
Available together for the first time in one specially designed boxed set, ten repackaged paperback editions of Zora Neale Hurston’s…
Josie P. Campbell
A study of Zora Neale Hurston, examining her contributions to the Harlem Renaissance as well as her role as mediator between the black and white worlds in which she lived…
Zora Neale Hurston is a major figure in African American literature. She was also a serious and ambitious playwright throughout her career. This book includes eleven of her dramatic writings.
Charlotte Etinde-Crompton,Samuel Willard Crompton
Like many artists before her, Zora Neale Hurston received virtually no recognition for her work until after her death. Hurston began her career as an anthropologist, observing and documenting the…
Deborah G. Plant
Zora Neale Hurston is regarded as an integral part of the Harlem Renaissance and an important and influential African American writer. This biography takes into account the whole woman, the…
The author of such great works as Their Eyes Were Watching God, Moses, Man of the Mountain, Jonah’s Gourd Vine, Mules and Men, as well as essays, folklore, short stories…
Lovalerie King (Pennsylvania State University)
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a key text in African American literature and its author Zora Neale Hurston has become an iconic figure. This introductory book designed for students…
This anthology of Zora Neale Hurston’s work includes Sweat and The Gilded Six-Bits . The volume also includes the 1934 essay Characteristics of Negro-Expression , with excerpts from her autobiography…
Stephanie Li
In this biography, chronological chapters follow Zora Neale Hurston’s family, upbringing, education, influences, and of course, her major works, and place these experiences within the context of American history –
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Karla FC Holloway
With the publication of this text, Karla Holloway becomes the first to produce a book-length analysis of Hurston’s use of language in her four major novels. Writing from the perspective…
Tiffany Ruby Patterson
Zora Neale Hurston’s ethnographies, plays, and fiction focused on the day-to-day life in all-black social spaces and ‘the Negro farthest down’ in labor camps. This book shows how Hurston’s work…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Zora Neale Hurston’s Spunk, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
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A Study Guide for Zora Neale Hurston’s Sweat, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Valerie Boyd
With the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Depression, and World War II as the historical backdrops, this riveting biography not only positions Zora Neale Hurston’s work in her time, but offers…
Steve Dickison
Poetic iterations of what Amiri Baraka called the blues impulse, attending to an inside song that could bring people in
Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston
The Mule-Bone; A comedy of Negro life in three acts, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
This story begins in Eatonville, Florida, on a Saturday afternoon with Jim and Dave fighting for Daisy’s affection. An argument breaks out between two men, and Jim picks up a…
This is a three-act comedy from the Harlem Renaissance. The setting is Florida. The main characters are two song and dance men and Daisy. Here is a classic love triangle…
Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston explores a battle between physical and moral strength in this pocket-sized short story, 'Spunk'.
'Sweat' is an early feminist short story by Harlem Renaissance writer, Zora Neale Hurston. This pocket-sized tale presents the contrasting lives of a married couple: the sweat and toil of…
From the prolific Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston, 'Spunk' and 'Sweat' are thought-provoking short stories set in the heart of African-American communities following the civil war.
From ‘one of the greatest writers of our time’ (Toni Morrison) - the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and Barracoon - a collection of remarkable short stories from…
Zora Neale Hurston's tragic 1926 play Color Struck is a thought-provoking commentary on colorism within the Black community.
Hurston’s most highly acclaimed novel returns in a beautiful new edition, in time to celebrate Black History Month.
In 1925, Zora Neale Hurston was living in New York as a fledgling writer. This collection of stories, found in archives after her death, reveal African American folk culture in…
Weaving a vibrant tapestry of the rural South, this extensive volume of African-American folklore was collected in the late 1920s by Zora Neale Hurston on her travels through the Gulf…
P.S. insights, interviews, & more … –Cover.
P.S. insights, interviews & more… –Cover.
Based on the familiar story of the Exodus, here is a new edition of a compelling allegory of power, redemption, and faith. Hurston blends the Moses of the Old Testament…
First published in 1942 at the crest of her popularity as a writer, this is Zora Neale Hurston’s imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the…
Includes additional biographical material and critical analysis.
