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.
發表於2024-12-22
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這本書講述的是一位黑人女孩珍妮,通過嚮好友費奧比迴憶自己的前半生經曆,兒童時期和外婆的生活,成年後的三次婚姻,通過珍妮的迴憶,來呈現一個黑人女人尋找自我的過程。作者佐拉•尼爾•赫斯頓是美國黑人女作傢,她以文字的形式,緻力於呈現黑人的文化和女性意識地覺醒...
評分“遠方的輪船承載著每個男人的希望。有些船隻伴著潮為入港,另一些則始終航行在海平綫上,從不脫離人們的視野直至嘹望者聽天由命地移開目光,他們的夢想被時間摧摺殆盡,這些船纔會靠岸停泊。這便是男人的人生。 女人呢,她們把不願想起的事情統統忘記,把她們不原忘記的每件事...
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...
評分譯後記: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...
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三星半。Vimeo上有audiobook,可以比較直觀地聽到黑人口音,或許比讀文本中的transcription更容易些。寫到瞭當年黑人群體對Booker T. Washington的看法:He was a white men's nigger.
評分modernism
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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。
評分黑妹不卑不亢
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