Zora Neale Hurston Group
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sherita08
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Why was Zora Neale Hurston criticized in her lifetime by fellow African Americans for accepting endowments from white people who supported her?
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ladyvols1 Teacher
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Posted by ladyvols1 on Wednesday November 12, 2008 at 6:23 PMHurston wrote a great many stories, but she could not support herself on the money earned. Found herself having to live on funds given to her by patrons of the arts. There were white people who would pay for this "primitive art." "The stories that Zora wrote during the Harlem Renaissance were often criticized by the intelligentsia of the era because, as friend and fellow writer, Langston Hughes, stated, "[she] did not write fiction in the protest tradition"(Marks 59). Instead, Zora focused on what she knew of the southern Black existence and tried to create characters and story-lines that truly reflected black life." African-American authors during this period wanted "protest stories" about the hardships they had suffered under the white suppression.
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