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Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece is perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature. Published as part of a beautifully designed series…
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Zora Neale Hurston, Deborah G Plant
A never before published novel from beloved author Zora Neale Hurston, revealing the historical Herod the Great--not the villain the Bible makes him out to be but a religious and…
M Genevieve West
Taking a close look at Zora Neale Hurston's historical and literary contexts, this book investigates why Hurston's writing fell out of favor during her lifetime only to be reclaimed and…
"A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how…
A never-before-published novel from beloved author Zora Neale Hurston, revealing the historical Herod the Great - not the demon the Bible makes him out to be but a religious and…
Cheryl R Hopson
Explores the creativity and life of anthropologist, folklorist and novelist Zora Neale Hurston.
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Joyce Markovics
"Find out about Zora Neal Hurston, a pioneering writer and anthropologist, in this biography for young readers. Learn about her life and uncover how she used the power of her…
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Sandra Wallus Sammons
Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, anthropologist, folklorist, and playwright who captured the true essence of African-Americans in the early twentieth century. Although her career was short lived and she…
The fascinating world of one of the most enigmatic literary figures of the 20th century comes alive through her letters to her Harlem Renaissance friends including Langston Hughes, Alain Locke…
Zora Neale Hurston is today recognized as a major contributor to the Harlem Renaissance literature of the 1920s and American modernist literature. Hurston’s most important works, published in the 1930s…
Zora Neale Hurston was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God , a classic in the African-American canon, depicts a woman’s…
Lara Antal,Lara Antal
A biography of African American author Zora Neale Hurston.
De Turkey and De Law A Comedy in Three Acts, is a classical book and has been considered important throughout the human history. So that this book is never forgotten…
Deborah G. Plant
The author of such great works as Their Eyes Were Watching God, Moses, Man of the Mountain, Jonah’s Gourd Vine, Mules and Men, as well as essays, folklore, short stories…
Robert W. Croft
Anthropologist and author Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) is one of the most significant African American writers of the 20th century.
Dennis Brindell Fradin,Judith Bloom Fradin
Zora Neale Hurston was confident, charismatic, and determined to be extraordinary.
One of the greatest writers of our time. –Toni Morrison
Available together for the first time in one specially designed boxed set, ten repackaged paperback editions of Zora Neale Hurston’s…
Zora Neale Hurston is a major figure in African American literature. She was also a serious and ambitious playwright throughout her career. This book includes eleven of her dramatic writings.
Charlotte Etinde-Crompton,Samuel Willard Crompton
Like many artists before her, Zora Neale Hurston received virtually no recognition for her work until after her death. Hurston began her career as an anthropologist, observing and documenting the…
Josie P. Campbell
A study of Zora Neale Hurston, examining her contributions to the Harlem Renaissance as well as her role as mediator between the black and white worlds in which she lived…
Robert E. Hemenway
Cronin,Gloria L. Cronin
Covers the works of author Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960), best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
This anthology of Zora Neale Hurston’s work includes Sweat and The Gilded Six-Bits . The volume also includes the 1934 essay Characteristics of Negro-Expression , with excerpts from her autobiography…
Sharon L. Jones
Zora Neale Hurston, one the first great African-American novelists, was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance and an inspiration for future generations of writers. Suitable for high school and…
Zora Neale Hurston is regarded as an integral part of the Harlem Renaissance and an important and influential African American writer. This biography takes into account the whole woman, the…
Lovalerie King (Pennsylvania State University)
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a key text in African American literature and its author Zora Neale Hurston has become an iconic figure. This introductory book designed for students…
Karla FC Holloway
With the publication of this text, Karla Holloway becomes the first to produce a book-length analysis of Hurston’s use of language in her four major novels. Writing from the perspective…
Della A Yannuzzi
An examination of the life and work of African-American author and storyteller Zora Neale Hurston, who has been recognized for her substantial contribution to American literature and southern African-American folklore.
An examination of the life and work of African-American author and storyteller Zora Neale Hurston, who has been recognized for her substantial contribution to American literature and southern African-American folklore…
Katie Marsico
Discusses the life and achievements of Zora Neale Hurston, discussing her childhood, education, family, and influence.
Tiffany Ruby Patterson
Zora Neale Hurston’s ethnographies, plays, and fiction focused on the day-to-day life in all-black social spaces and ‘the Negro farthest down’ in labor camps. This book shows how Hurston’s work…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Zora Neale Hurston’s Spunk, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
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A Study Guide for Zora Neale Hurston’s Sweat, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
M.Genevieve West
Genevieve West examines the cultural history of Zora Neale Hurston’s writing and the reception of her work, in an attempt to explain why Hurston died in obscure poverty only to…
Ayana I Karanja
With essays, critiques, poems, meditations, and photographs, Karanja (sociology and anthropology, Loyola U., Chicago) reflects on the life and work of Hurston who during the 1920s and 1940s was a…
Stephanie Li
In this biography, chronological chapters follow Zora Neale Hurston’s family, upbringing, education, influences, and of course, her major works, and place these experiences within the context of American history –
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Valerie Boyd
With the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Depression, and World War II as the historical backdrops, this riveting biography not only positions Zora Neale Hurston’s work in her time, but offers…
Steve Dickison
Poetic iterations of what Amiri Baraka called the blues impulse, attending to an inside song that could bring people in
This vibrant first novel by Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most influential African-American writers, is reissued with a new introduction by Jesmyn Ward.
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Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece is perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature.
'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison
