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
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Their Eyes Were Watching God 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
Their Eyes Were Watching God perfectly combines folklore and literature in the theme of Black and female empowerment. The folklore elements were so well immersed that they could easily go unnoticed. According to Claire Crabtree, there are four major aspects...
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...
评分 评分 评分译后记: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...
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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.
为了拼命完成论文而读. 在知道plot的情况下, literary devices, puns, rhetorics都显现出来. 在当代1920-30 作为一个African American feminist大胆违背社会现实主义social realism 的左翼激进主义radicalism. 跨时代意义.
评分"two things everybody got to do for themselves.They got to go to God, and they got to find out about living for themselves."
评分You should listen to the audiobook which is available on YouTube. This accent is amazing. 撩汉本领真棒。
评分Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore. 爱就像大海。它是流动的,但它会随着海岸的变化呈现出不同的形状。
评分可以说这是我读过的第一本african american写的小说。eye opening.
Their Eyes Were Watching God 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书