Zora Neale Hurston / Cheryl R. Hopson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hopson, Cheryl R., author.

Series:

Critical lives (London, England)

Critical Lives Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hurston, Zora Neale.

African American authors--20th century--Biography.

African American authors.

African American women authors--20th century--Biography.

African American women authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Reaktion Books Ltd, [2024]

Summary:

The life, work, and legacy of one of the twentieth century's most published African American women. This book explores the life and legacy of Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), the most-published African American woman of the first half of the twentieth century. Famous today as the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God , Hurston was also an anthropologist and a folklorist. In this new biography, Cheryl Hopson casts Hurston as a modern woman on the move, particularly as a collector of stories in and around the Jim Crow South. Hopson details her rejection by the Harlem Renaissance as well as her recovery by Black feminists such as Alice Walker years after her death. The result is an accessible and fresh account of the celebrated writer's life and work.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

1. Childhood

2. Opportunity

3. Curiosity

4. On Fiction and Folklore

5. Stormy Weather

6. Featherbed Resistance

7. The Dulling Final Years

Epilogue: 'I'm Not Done Yet'

References

Select Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Photo Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Hopson, Cheryl R. Zora Neale Hurston

ISBN:

9781789148244

OCLC:

47624281