Hurston, Zora Neale - Myles Raymond Hurd (essay date fall 1993)
Myles Raymond Hurd (essay date fall 1993)
SOURCE: Hurd, Myles Raymond. “What Goes Around Comes Around: Characterization, Climax, and Closure in Hurston's ‘Sweat’.” Langston Hughes Review 12, no. 2 (fall 1993): 7-15.
[In the following essay, Hurd offers a thematic and stylistic analysis of “Sweat.”]
Shortly after her 1925 arrival in New York City from Washington, D.C., and her native Eatonville, Florida, Zora Neale Hurston sought to make her literary presence known by entering a contest in creative writing sponsored by Charles S. Johnson, editor of Opportunity, and by having one of her prize-winning fictions reprinted in Alain Locke's The New Negro (1925). Inspired by the encouragement of these well-known Black editors, Hurston felt confident enough in 1926 to join forces with Wallace Thurman and Langston Hughes in coediting Fire!!, a journal designed to “epater le bourgeois into a realization of...
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