The Gilded Six-bits
Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher :
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 1986
Category : African American women authors
ISBN : 9781556280061
Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher :
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 1986
Category : African American women authors
ISBN : 9781556280061
Author : Judith P. Saunders
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,26 MB
Release : 2018
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781618115928
This book examines selected works in the American literary tradition from an evolutionary perspective. Individual essays address figures ranging from Benjamin Franklin to Billy Collins, targeting a variety of fitness-related issues--courtship, nepotism, competition, cooperation, status, and deception, for example--in the context of both physical and social environment.
Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 13,36 MB
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062915819
From “one of the greatest writers of our time” (Toni Morrison)—the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God—a collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time. New York Times’ Books to Watch for Buzzfeed’s Most Anticipated Books Newsweek’s Most Anticipated Books Forbes.com’s Most Anticipated Books E!’s Top Books to Read Glamour’s Best Books Essence’s Best Books by Black Authors In 1925, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston—the sole black student at the college—was living in New York, “desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world.” During this period, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later, this singular talent is recognized as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the modern period. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston’s “lost” Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humor, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of Hurston’s world. All are timeless classics that enrich our understanding and appreciation of this exceptional writer’s voice and her contributions to America’s literary traditions.
Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 26,42 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.
Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,83 MB
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061350191
Jonah's Gourd Vine, Zora Neale Hurston's first novel, originally published in 1934, tells the story of John Buddy Pearson, "a living exultation" of a young man who loves too many women for his own good. Lucy, his long-suffering wife, is his true love, but there's also Mehaley and Big 'Oman, as well as the scheming Hattie, who conjures hoodoo spells to ensure his attentions. Even after becoming the popular pastor of Zion Hope, where his sermons and prayers for cleansing rouse the congregation's fervor, John has to confess that though he is a preacher on Sundays, he is a "natchel man" the rest of the week. And so in this sympathetic portrait of a man and his community, Zora Neale Hurston shows that faith, tolerance, and good intentions cannot resolve the tension between the spiritual and the physical. That she makes this age-old dilemma come so alive is a tribute to her understanding of the vagaries of human nature.
Author : Chic Street Man
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780822217558
THE STORY: Hurston's evocative prose and Wolfe's unique theatrical style blend to create an evening of theatre that celebrates the human spirit's ability to overcome and endure. Utilizing the blues, choral narrative and dance, the three tales focus
Author : Richard Nathaniel Wright
Publisher : Tale Blazers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,10 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780895986597
Richard Wright [RL 6 IL 10-12] A poor black boy acquires a very disturbing symbol of manhood--a gun. Theme: maturing. 38 pages. Tale Blazers.
Author : Anzia Yezierska
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1649741081
A mother dances on the edge of self-destruction when she paints her kitchen white for her son returning home from the military but has her rent raised by her cruel landlord as a response. Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants—particularly Jewish immigrant women.
Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 50,65 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 : William L Andrews
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780195081961
This anthology opens a window on one of the most extraordinary assertions of racial self-conciousness in Western literature.