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Zora Neale Hurston : a literary biography / Robert E. Hemenway ; with a foreword by Alice Walker.
LIBRA PS3515.U789 Z7
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hemenway, Robert E., 1941-2015.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hurston, Zora Neale.
- Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.
- Novelists, American.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- African American authors--Biography.
- African American authors.
- Folklorists--United States--Biography.
- Folklorists.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 371 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 10 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1977.
- Contents:
- Jump at the Sun: 1901-25
- Harlem City
- From the Earliest Rocking of My Cradle
- Do You Know Any Folktales?
- Godmother and Big Sweet: 1927-31
- "Mule Bone"
- The Will to Adorn
- Plough Up Some Literary
- Crayon Enlargements of Life
- Voodoo Gods and Biblical Men
- Ambiguities of Self, Politics of Race
- The Pots in Sorrow's Kitchen
- Appendix: A Checklist of Zora Neale Hurston.
- Notes:
- "Cover photograph of Zora Neale Hurston by Carl Van Vechten ..."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy is "Second printing, 1978".
- ISBN:
- 0252006526 :
- OCLC:
- 3072731
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