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2025-01-03
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译后记:当代黑人女性文学的先行者 王家湘 佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿出生于1891年,在美国第一个黑人小城伊顿维尔度过了童年。她的父亲是小城的市长,曾做过小学教师的母亲总是鼓励孩子们“跳向太阳”——要有远大志向。伊顿维尔没有一个白人,因此赫斯顿的童年是在没有种族...
评分阿妈当然是爱着珍妮的,她的一生都以爱为名,保护着她不受到一丝伤害。阿妈自己作为种植园里的奴隶,因为生下的孩子是灰眼睛黄头发而被女主人鞭打质问,她或者自己也无法明白,她说“我什么也不知道,只知道干让我干的事,因为我只不过是个黑鬼和奴隶。”她被白人主人要求所做...
评分美国这个思想自由国度历来不缺乏描写黑人的文学作品,十九世纪斯托夫人的《汤姆叔叔的小屋》吹响了废除黑奴的号角,问世后一版再版,深受好评。林肯总统在接见斯托夫人时幽默风趣地称赞她是“写了一本书,酿成了一场大战的小妇人。”二十世纪有马克•吐温的《哈克贝利•费...
评分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 ...
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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.
去年暑假读的,读的很粗,因为slang太多,有点disturbing 内容很好
评分可以说这是我读过的第一本african american写的小说。eye opening.
评分排除有点不适应语言问题,其余都很好。真挚哇~
评分里面的对话全是黑人俚语发音写出来的样子,刚刚开始看有点吃力。。但这本书内容写的也就那样吧
评分You should listen to the audiobook which is available on YouTube. This accent is amazing. 撩汉本领真棒。
Their Eyes Were Watching God 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书