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Three Classic Works: Their Eyes Were Watching God / Dust Tracks on a Road / Mules and Men
Features the author's novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God," her autobiography, "Dust Tracks on a Road," and her study of African American folklore from Louisiana and Florida, "Mules and Men"
- GenresFiction
3 pages, Audio Cassette
First published October 13, 1991
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Zora Neale Hurston
185 books5,453 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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July 28, 2011
This novel tells the story of a woman named Janie Crawford. Janie Crawford begins her life in Georgia. She lives with her grandma. Janie's grandma loves her deeply. Janie's grandma wants her to lead a different life than the one led by her daughter and Janie's mother. Grandma knows she's about to die and go to the other side. So she decides to choose a good husband for Janie. His name is Logan. He's an older man and not a good looking man. He's just a man with 60 acres of land. He's done well with his life. With him, grandma thinks, Janie will fine security. Love doesn't matter. If it comes along during the marriage, that's good. If it doesn't come, that's fine too. It's all about having food, clothing and shelter and a few luxuries. Janie sees life differently than her grandma. Janie wants to be loved and loved passionately.
"Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah..."
In Their Eyes Were Watching God by ZORA NEALE HURSTON, three different men enter Janie's life: Logan, Jody and Tea Cake. With each man Janie grows stronger and becomes wiser. I thought she always seemed liked a woman ahead of her time. Janie knows she has a head on her shoulder. It isn't just put there to hold a pretty face and a head full of thick, pretty hair. Neither is she put on the earth to be a man's slave or play toy. I suppose it took making her tracks out of Georgia to Eatonville, Florida and back to Georgia to know her self worth and to know her inner soul.
"Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder, So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see."
zoranealehurston
"Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah..."
In Their Eyes Were Watching God by ZORA NEALE HURSTON, three different men enter Janie's life: Logan, Jody and Tea Cake. With each man Janie grows stronger and becomes wiser. I thought she always seemed liked a woman ahead of her time. Janie knows she has a head on her shoulder. It isn't just put there to hold a pretty face and a head full of thick, pretty hair. Neither is she put on the earth to be a man's slave or play toy. I suppose it took making her tracks out of Georgia to Eatonville, Florida and back to Georgia to know her self worth and to know her inner soul.
"Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder, So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see."
zoranealehurston
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