Spunk | Critical Overview
‘‘Spunk’’ was received favorably from the very beginning, taking second place in the Opportunity literary contest, being published in the magazine, and then being selected for Alain Locke’s anthology The New Negro, all within a few months. That first success led to others, and Hurston’s work was wellregarded for the next fifteen years. Her novels were widely reviewed. Reviewers focused their attention on the local color aspects of the novels and debated whether her characters’ dialectical speech was a strength or a weakness. Her autobiography, Dust Tracks...
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