Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1567430287 ISBN 13: 9781567430288

Casa editrice: Amistad Pr, 2000

Riassunto

Zora Neale Hurston

(1891 -- 1960)

 

Of the various signs that the study of literature in America has been transformed, none is more salient than is the resurrection and canonization of Zora Neale Hurston. Twenty years ago, Hurston's work was largely out-of-print, her literary legacy alive only to a tiny, devoted band of readers who were often forced to photocopy her works if they were to be taught ... Today her works are central to the canon of African-American, American, and Women's literatures ... The author of four novels, Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934), Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937),Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939), and Seraph on the Suwanee (1948); two books of folklore -- Mules and Men (1935) and Tell My Horse (1938); an autobiography, Dust Tracks On a Road (1942); and over 50 short stories, essays, and plays, Hurston was one of the most widely acclaimed Black authors for the two decades between 1925 and 1945.

-- from the Preface by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored seventeen books and created fourteen documentary films. Having written for such leading publications as The New Yorker, the New York Times, and Time, Professor Gates now serves as chairman of the daily online magazine The Root and is editor in chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center. He has received more than fifty honorary degrees from institutions the world over.

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• Editore: Amistad Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1567430287
• ISBN 13: 9781567430288
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 330
• Redattore: Gates Henry Louis, Appiah Kwame Anthony