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Title:
I love myself when I am laughing ... and then again when I am looking mean and impressive : a Zora Neale Hurston reader
Alternate title:
I love myself when I am laughing : a Zora Neale Hurston reader
Summary:
The most prolific African-American woman author from 1920 to 1950, Hurston was praised for her writing and condemned for her independence, arrogance, and audaciousness. This unique anthology, with fourteen superb examples of her fiction, journalism, folklore, and autobiography, rightfully establishes her as the intellectual and spiritual leader of the next generation of black writers. The original commentary by Alice Walker and Mary Helen Washington, two African-American writers in the forefront of the Hurston revival, provide illuminating insights into Hurston—the writer, and the person—as well as into American social and cultural history.
Contents:
On refusing to be humbled by second place in a contest you did not design: a tradition by now / Zora Neale Hurston: a woman half in shadow / Autobiography, Folklore and Reportage -- from Dust Tracks on a Road -- from Mules and Men -- from Tell my Horse -- Essays and Articles -- How it feels to be colored me -- The "pet" Negro system -- My most humiliating Jim Crow experience -- Crazy for this democracy -- What white publishers won't print -- Fiction -- The Eatonville Anthology -- from Jonah's Gourd Vine -- Sweat -- The Gilded Six-Bits -- from Moses, Man of the Mountain -- from Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Looking for Zora
Physical Description:
313 pages : portraits ; 23 cm
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Publisher:
Feminist Press,
Publication Date:
1979
ISBN:
9780912670560

9780912670669
Publication Information:
Old Westbury, N.Y. : Feminist Press, ©1979.
Call Number:
813 HURSTON
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