Author : Victoria Bond
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,56 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763643009
A tale inspired by the early life of Zora Neale Hurston finds the imaginative future author telling fantastical stories about a mythical evil creature until a racially charged murder threatens to shatter the peace in her turn-of-the-century Southern community. A first novel.
Author : T. R. Simon
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763699632
A powerful fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston’s childhood adventures explores the idea of collective memory and the lingering effects of slavery. “History ain’t in a book, especially when it comes to folks like us. History is in the lives we lived and the stories we tell each other about those lives.” When Zora Neale Hurston and her best friend, Carrie Brown, discover that the town mute can speak after all, they think they’ve uncovered a big secret. But Mr. Polk’s silence is just one piece of a larger puzzle that stretches back half a century to the tragic story of an enslaved girl named Lucia. As Zora’s curiosity leads a reluctant Carrie deeper into the mystery, the story unfolds through alternating narratives. Lucia’s struggle for freedom resonates through the years, threatening the future of America’s first incorporated black township — the hometown of author Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960). In a riveting coming-of-age tale, award-winning author T. R. Simon champions the strength of a people to stand up for justice.
Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1504081471
The acclaimed author of Their Eyes Were Watching God relates her experiences as an African American woman in early-twentieth-century America. In this autobiographical essay, author Zora Neale Hurston recounts episodes from her childhood in different communities in Florida: Eatonville and Jacksonville. She reflects on what those experiences showed her about race, identity, and feeling different. “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” was originally published in 1928 in the magazine The World Tomorrow.
Author : Yuval Taylor
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393243923
A Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography “A complete pleasure to read.” —Lisa Page, Washington Post Novelist Zora Neale Hurston and poet Langston Hughes, two of America’s greatest writers, first met in New York City in 1925. Drawn to each other, they helped launch a radical journal, Fire!! Later, meeting by accident in Alabama, they became close as they traveled together—Hurston interviewing African Americans for folk stories, Hughes getting his first taste of the deep South. By illuminating their lives, work, competitiveness, and ambitions, Yuval Taylor savvily details how their friendship and literary collaborations dead-ended in acrimonious accusations.
Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0061847399
“Strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained . . . an unusual and intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information.” —New York Times Book Review Based on Zora Neale Hurston’s personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practices during her visits in the 1930s, this travelogue into a dark world paints a vividly authentic picture of the ceremonies, customs, and superstitions of voodoo.
Author : Claudia Mair Burney
Publisher : David C Cook
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 2008
Category : African American women
ISBN : 9780781445504
What do Zora, a Black American Princess and Nicky, a blond haired blue eyed Berkeley grad have in common? Absolutely nothing except for their excruciatingly out of touch preacher fathers.
Author : Alicia D. Williams
Publisher : Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 20,84 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1534419136
From the Newbery Honor–winning author of Genesis Begins Again comes a shimmering picture book that shines the light on Zora Neale Hurston, the extraordinary writer and storycatcher extraordinaire who changed the face of American literature. Zora was a girl who hankered for tales like bees for honey. Now, her mama always told her that if she wanted something, “to jump at de sun”, because even though you might not land quite that high, at least you’d get off the ground. So Zora jumped from place to place, from the porch of the general store where she listened to folktales, to Howard University, to Harlem. And everywhere she jumped, she shined sunlight on the tales most people hadn’t been bothered to listen to until Zora. The tales no one had written down until Zora. Tales on a whole culture of literature overlooked…until Zora. Until Zora jumped.
Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher :
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 1937
Category :
ISBN : 9780800074142
Author : Valerie Boyd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0684842300
Traces the career of the influential African-American writer, citing the historical backdrop of her life and work while considering her relationships with and influences on top literary, intellectual, and artistic figures.
Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061749877
Zora Neale Hurston brings us Black America’s folklore as only she can, putting the oral history on the written page with grace and understanding. This new edition of Mules and Men features a new cover and a P.S. section which includes insights, interviews, and more. For the student of cultural history, Mules and Men is a treasury of Black America’s folklore as collected by Zora Neale Hurston, the storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed and oral history of the South since the time of slavery. Set intimately within the social context of Black life, the stories, “big old lies,” songs, voodoo customs, and superstitions recorded in these pages capture the imagination and bring back to life the humor and wisdom that is the unique heritage of Black Americans.
