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Zora Neale Hurston

I think that Hurston's books are highly appropriate for teens in a couple of ways.  The first would be that Hurston is speaking from a point of view that is so authentic and so powerful that...

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Zora Neale Hurston

I am sympathetic to you because this is a convoluted question that seems to have very little to do with what Hurston is talking about in "How It Feels to be Colored Me." However, one could read her...

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Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston discusses her attitude toward slavery in the essay "How it Feels to Be Colored Me." Rather surprisingly, the essay is humorous in tone and rejects the notion of slavery as an...

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Zora Neale Hurston

This statement speaks to the way different cultural histories have led Black people and white people to have different forms of thinking and expression. In particular, it alludes to the many years in...

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Zora Neale Hurston

Personally, I am always wary of these labels when they are applied to writers. They tend to oversimplify the relationships of the author to his or her subject matter and cultural context. In the...

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Zora Neale Hurston

In "The Gilded Six-Bits" by Zora Neale Hurston, Joe and Missie May's story is similar to the biblical story of Adam and Eve. In the beginning of both stories, a beautiful garden is emphasized. In...

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Zora Neale Hurston

Two writers, both products of the American South, both born in the latter part of the 19th Century and both died in the middle of the 20th Century.  One, however, was white and raised in a...

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Zora Neale Hurston

There are at least a couple of different texts in which Zora Neale Hurston describes Eatonville, Florida, a town where she grew up but also one in which she set her best-known novel, Their Eyes...

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Zora Neale Hurston

In her essay, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me," Zora Neale Hurston begins by describing her childhood in Eatonville, Florida—an all-black community. She recalls seeing passing white visitors,...

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Zora Neale Hurston

Hurston 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...

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Zora Neale Hurston

In her essay "How It Feels to be Colored Me," Zora Neale Hurston mentions what she calls the "sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal." The...

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Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston gained posthumous recognition primarily through the efforts of author Alice Walker, who revived interest in Hurston's work with her essay "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston" in 1975....

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Zora Neale Hurston

One of the most interesting things I have always remembered about Zora Neal Hurston is something very bold which she did--both as a woman and as an African-American.  She was writing during...

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