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Morte Negra
- GenresShort Stories
27 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 15, 2021
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Zora Neale Hurston
184 books5,465 followersNovels, including
Their Eyes Were Watching God
(1937), and nonfiction writings of American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston give detailed accounts of African American life in the South.
In 1925, Hurston, one of the leaders of the literary renaissance, happening in Harlem, produced the short-lived literary magazine Fire!! alongside Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman shortly before she entered Barnard College. This literary movement developed into the Harlem renaissance.
Hurston applied her Barnard ethnographic training to document African American folklore in her critically acclaimed book Mules and Men alongside fiction Their Eyes Were Watching God . She also assembled a folk-based performance dance group that recreated her Southern tableau with one performance on Broadway.
People awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to Hurston to travel to Haiti and conduct research on conjure in 1937. Her significant work ably broke into the secret societies and exposed their use of drugs to create the Vodun trance, also a subject of study for fellow dancer-anthropologist Katherine Dunham, then at the University of Chicago.
In 1954, the Pittsburgh Courier assigned Hurston, unable to sell her fiction, 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.
In 1925, Hurston, one of the leaders of the literary renaissance, happening in Harlem, produced the short-lived literary magazine Fire!! alongside Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman shortly before she entered Barnard College. This literary movement developed into the Harlem renaissance.
Hurston applied her Barnard ethnographic training to document African American folklore in her critically acclaimed book Mules and Men alongside fiction Their Eyes Were Watching God . She also assembled a folk-based performance dance group that recreated her Southern tableau with one performance on Broadway.
People awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to Hurston to travel to Haiti and conduct research on conjure in 1937. Her significant work ably broke into the secret societies and exposed their use of drugs to create the Vodun trance, also a subject of study for fellow dancer-anthropologist Katherine Dunham, then at the University of Chicago.
In 1954, the Pittsburgh Courier assigned Hurston, unable to sell her fiction, 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.
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September 10, 2024
Título original: «Black Death»
«They [The whites] have only eyes and ears, we see with the skin.»
Eatonville, Florida, é o cenário deste conto que assinala que a cultura negra não deve ser despojada daquilo que a diferencia da branca: raizes, a mitologia e folclore negros , a defesa da família e os modos diferentes de perceber a realidade.
Beau Diddley recusa casar com Docia Boger. «"Oh, well, you ought not to have believed me–you ought to have known I didn’t mean it. Anyway I’m not going to marry you, so what’re you going to do? Do whatever you feel big enough to try–my shoulders are broad."
«The worst sin a woman could commit was to run after a man.»
«So the next day Eatonville knew; and the scourge of tongues was added to Docia’s woes.»
Havia na cidade, um negro praticante de vudu e a mãe foi visitá-lo para resolver o problema da filha.
« All Africa awoke in her blood»
«But the Negroes knew instantly when they saw that mark, but everyone agreed that he got justice.»
Defesa do feminismo numa sátira sobre a segregação e experiência de ser uma mulher negra numa sociedade branca; uma reflexão das diferenças culturais e de percepção entre comunidades.
Uma escritora que eu nunca tinha lido, original no tratamento da herança africana e que termina o conto com a frase:«And the white folks never knew and would have laughed had anyone told them. He who sees only with the eyes is very blind.»
«They [The whites] have only eyes and ears, we see with the skin.»
Eatonville, Florida, é o cenário deste conto que assinala que a cultura negra não deve ser despojada daquilo que a diferencia da branca: raizes, a mitologia e folclore negros , a defesa da família e os modos diferentes de perceber a realidade.
Beau Diddley recusa casar com Docia Boger. «"Oh, well, you ought not to have believed me–you ought to have known I didn’t mean it. Anyway I’m not going to marry you, so what’re you going to do? Do whatever you feel big enough to try–my shoulders are broad."
«The worst sin a woman could commit was to run after a man.»
«So the next day Eatonville knew; and the scourge of tongues was added to Docia’s woes.»
Havia na cidade, um negro praticante de vudu e a mãe foi visitá-lo para resolver o problema da filha.
« All Africa awoke in her blood»
«But the Negroes knew instantly when they saw that mark, but everyone agreed that he got justice.»
Defesa do feminismo numa sátira sobre a segregação e experiência de ser uma mulher negra numa sociedade branca; uma reflexão das diferenças culturais e de percepção entre comunidades.
Uma escritora que eu nunca tinha lido, original no tratamento da herança africana e que termina o conto com a frase:«And the white folks never knew and would have laughed had anyone told them. He who sees only with the eyes is very blind.»
May 3, 2021
Décimo conto do Clube da Caixa Preta, fluiu rapidinho num dia triste. Junto com Nella, Zora é minha favorita entre os que conheci nesse clube. Não decepcionou nesse conto curtinho. s2
"Pessoas brancas são muito burras quando se trata de certas coisas. Elas podem pensar muito, mas [ilegível no manuscrito original]": OURO
"A mulher morreu, e naquela pedra fria e pesada uma tigresa foi cortada pela faca da vergonha."
"Pessoas brancas são muito burras quando se trata de certas coisas. Elas podem pensar muito, mas [ilegível no manuscrito original]": OURO
"A mulher morreu, e naquela pedra fria e pesada uma tigresa foi cortada pela faca da vergonha."
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