Dust Tracks on a Road (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Zora Neale Hurston
- First Published: 1942
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth century to 1940
- Setting: Florida, New York, and California
- Principal Characters: Zora Neale Hurston, John Hurston, Lucy Potts Hurston, Albert W. Price III
- Genres: Criticism
- Subjects: African Americans
- Locales: New York, NY
Form and Content
Zora Neale Hurston’s life has been surrounded by questions and controversy. Although Dust Tracks on a Road is Hurston’s official autobiography, many of these questions, especially about her adult life, are not answered in this work. While parts of Hurston’s personality and life will always remain elusive, she has selected certain experiences and images that appear repeatedly in her novels and nonfictional works, most notably in her anthropological work Mules and Men (1935) and in her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God...
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