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Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best remembered for her novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God”. But even as she gained renown in the Harlem literary circles, Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas. She would make several trips to the American South and the Caribbean, documenting the lives of rural Black people and collecting their stories. She studied her own people, an unusual practice at the time, and during her lifetime became known as the foremost authority on Black folklore.
Directed by Tracy Heather Strain, produced by Randall MacLowry and executive produced by Cameo George, ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE, is an in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century. OFFICIAL SITE: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe…
Selected bibliography (From Wikipedia)
- “Journey’s End” (Negro World, 1922), poetry
- “Night” (Negro World, 1922), poetry
- “Passion” (Negro World, 1922), poetry
- Color Struck (Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 1925), play
- Muttsy (Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life) 1926, short story.
- “Sweat” (1926), short story
- “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” (1928), essay
- “Hoodoo in America” (1931) in The Journal of American Folklore
- “The Gilded Six-Bits” (1933), short story
- Jonah’s Gourd Vine (1934), novel
- Mules and Men (1935), non-fiction
- Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), novel
- Tell My Horse (1938), non-fiction
- Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939), novel
- Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), autobiography
- Seraph on the Suwanee (1948), novel
- “What White Publishers Won’t Print” (Negro Digest, 1950)
- I Love Myself When I Am Laughing… and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader (Alice Walker, ed.; 1979)
- The Sanctified Church (1981)
- Spunk: Selected Stories (1985)
- Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life (play, with Langston Hughes; edited with introductions by George Houston Bass and Henry Louis Gates Jr.; 1991)
- The Complete Stories (introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sieglinde Lemke; 1995)
- Novels & Stories: Jonah’s Gourd Vine, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Moses, Man of the Mountain, Seraph on the Suwanee, Selected Stories (Cheryl A. Wall, ed.; Library of America, 1995) ISBN 978-0-940450-83-7
- Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings: Mules and Men, Tell My Horse, Dust Tracks on a Road, Selected Articles (Cheryl A. Wall, ed.; Library of America, 1995) ISBN 978-0-940450-84-4
- Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States (2001)
- Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters, collected and edited by Carla Kaplan (2003)
- Collected Plays (2008)
- Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” (2018)
- Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance (2020)
- “You Don’t Know Us Negroes” (2022)[106]
