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
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.
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譯後記:當代黑人女性文學的先行者 王傢湘 佐拉·尼爾·赫斯頓齣生於1891年,在美國第一個黑人小城伊頓維爾度過瞭童年。她的父親是小城的市長,曾做過小學教師的母親總是鼓勵孩子們“跳嚮太陽”——要有遠大誌嚮。伊頓維爾沒有一個白人,因此赫斯頓的童年是在沒有種族...
評分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...
評分 評分阿媽當然是愛著珍妮的,她的一生都以愛為名,保護著她不受到一絲傷害。阿媽自己作為種植園裏的奴隸,因為生下的孩子是灰眼睛黃頭發而被女主人鞭打質問,她或者自己也無法明白,她說“我什麼也不知道,隻知道乾讓我乾的事,因為我隻不過是個黑鬼和奴隸。”她被白人主人要求所做...
評分從十月下旬拿到復印版本的書, 到十一月初完成閱讀, 花瞭將近半個多月的零零散散的時間。 這本書是從黑人女性角度齣發,敘述瞭女主人公Janie一生的三段婚姻,她從婚姻中追求真愛,浪漫和自由,追求女性獨立的過程。從女性的角度來看,她的第三段婚姻於她來說是幸福的,是她所...
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modernism
評分為瞭拼命完成論文而讀. 在知道plot的情況下, literary devices, puns, rhetorics都顯現齣來. 在當代1920-30 作為一個African American feminist大膽違背社會現實主義social realism 的左翼激進主義radicalism. 跨時代意義.
評分弱者擁有黝黑的眼睛,在洪水猛獸的災難裏企圖透過黑暗尋找自己,尋找公平,尋找光明。災難是尋覓的必經之路,是災難讓愛,光明,黑暗,通通顯影。
評分go ahead
評分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. 愛就像大海。它是流動的,但它會隨著海岸的變化呈現齣不同的形狀。
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