Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist and author. In 1925, shortly before entering Barnard College, Hurston became one of the leaders of the literary renaissance happening in Harlem, producing the short-lived literary magazine Fire!! along with Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman. This literary movement became the center of the Harlem Renaissance.
Hurston applied her Barnard ethnographic training to document African American folklore in her critically acclaimed book Mules and Men along with fiction Their Eyes Were Watching God and dance, assembling a folk-based performance group that recreated her Southern tableau, with one performance on Broadway.
Hurston was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to travel to Haiti and conduct research on conjure in 1937. Her work was significant because she was able to break into the secret societies and expose their use of drugs to create the Vodun trance, also a subject of study for fellow dancer/anthropologist Katherine Dunham who was then at the University of Chicago.
In 1954 Hurston was unable to sell her fiction but was assigned by the Pittsburgh Courier to cover the small-town murder trial of Ruby McCollum, the prosperous black wife of the local lottery racketeer, who had killed a racist white doctor.
Hurston also contributed to Woman in the Suwanee County Jail, a book by journalist and civil rights advocate William Bradford Huie
发表于2025-02-08
Their Eyes Were Watching God 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
黑人文学老师要求读的,班里统一复印的老师的原版。不明白书名的用意。书里只一处写到了Their eyes were watching god ,在chapter 18 "They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching god" 这是在他们逃离飓风时的一段。其实全书主要写了主人公Jaine ...
评分黑人女作家佐拉笔下的女主角珍妮一直在寻觅自己的爱情,不由让我想起之前很喜欢的一部作品《被嫌弃的松子的一生》,同样是一个女人追逐爱,与男人纠葛、寻爱不得的一生,《他们眼望上苍》因其时代背景和种族歧视的刻画,比之《松子》中的性格悲剧要来得更深刻。 第一个男人洛根...
评分 评分从十月下旬拿到复印版本的书, 到十一月初完成阅读, 花了将近半个多月的零零散散的时间。 这本书是从黑人女性角度出发,叙述了女主人公Janie一生的三段婚姻,她从婚姻中追求真爱,浪漫和自由,追求女性独立的过程。从女性的角度来看,她的第三段婚姻于她来说是幸福的,是她所...
图书标签: 英文原版 小说 AfricanAmericanNovel 美国 外国文学 美國黑人小說 Hurston 西方文学
Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.
真 难 看
评分Use of slang and African American English in dialogue.
评分Racism:种族歧视可不仅限于别的种族,这可能是历史给这个种族留下的最大伤口。(“she think I’m too black for mah wife”) Love/relationship:I’m too old to believe in love, let’s stay as physical as we can Language: I’ll probably never learn proper English. Aside from that, to understand people (which is an impossible mission), learn the subtext of their language usage.
评分排除有点不适应语言问题,其余都很好。真挚哇~
评分很不錯,避開種族問題而將人性愛情娓娓道來,舒緩而感人
Their Eyes Were Watching God 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书