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.
“远方的轮船承载着每个男人的希望。有些船只伴着潮为入港,另一些则始终航行在海平线上,从不脱离人们的视野直至嘹望者听天由命地移开目光,他们的梦想被时间摧折殆尽,这些船才会靠岸停泊。这便是男人的人生。 女人呢,她们把不愿想起的事情统统忘记,把她们不原忘记的每件事...
评分Their Eyes Were Watching God perfectly combines folklore and literature in the theme of Black and female empowerment. The folklore elements were so well immersed that they could easily go unnoticed. According to Claire Crabtree, there are four major aspects...
评分 评分Their Eyes Were Watching God perfectly combines folklore and literature in the theme of Black and female empowerment. The folklore elements were so well immersed that they could easily go unnoticed. According to Claire Crabtree, there are four major aspects...
去年暑假读的,读的很粗,因为slang太多,有点disturbing 内容很好
评分modernism
评分You should listen to the audiobook which is available on YouTube. This accent is amazing. 撩汉本领真棒。
评分Use of slang and African American English in dialogue.
评分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. 爱就像大海。它是流动的,但它会随着海岸的变化呈现出不同的形状。
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