Zora Neale Hurston
Biographic Data
| ID | 409950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zora Neale Hurston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zora Neale |
| FAMILY NAME | Hurston |
| SIGNATURE | HURSTON Z N |
| AFFILIATIONS | New England School of Photography |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1927 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Why the Negro Won’t Buy Communism (1951)
Reprinted with permission of The American Legion Magazine , © June, 1951. www.legion.org
I Saw Negro Votes Peddled (1950)
Reprinted with permission of The American Legion Magazine , © November, 1950. www.legion.org
From Herod the Great
from Herod the Great Zora Neale Hurston Starting in the 1940s, Hurston began work on a novel about Herod the Great, the man who supposedly ordered the deaths of many children in an effort to kill the Christ-child, as the Gospel of Matthew records. Hurston considered the New Testament version of the story to be a blatant distortion of Herod's personal character, religious orientation, and political philosophy. Therefore, in her Herod novel, she wa…
Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays
Characteristics of Negro Expression (1934)
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States
Imagine the situations in which these speech acts occur. Recall a front stoop, juke joint, funeral, wedding, barbershop, kitchen: the music, noise, communal energy, and release. Dream. Participate the way you do when you allow a song to transport you, all kinds of songs, from hip-hop rap to Bach to Monk, each bearing its different history of sounds and silences.-- From the Foreword by John Edgar Wideman African-American folklore was Zora Neale Hu…
How it Feels to Be Colored Me
I am colored but I offer nothing in the of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief. I remember the very day that I became colored. Up to my thirteenth year I lived in the little Negro town of Eatonville, Florida. It is exclusively a colored town. The only white people I knew passed through the town going to or coming from Orlando. The na…
Zora Neale Hurston: Stories
What White Publishers Won’t Print (1950)
Characteristics of Negro Expression (1934)
Folklore and Music
Folklore is the boiled-down juice of human living. It does not belong to any special time, place, nor people. No country is so primitive that it has no lore, no country has yet become so civilized that no folklore is being made within its boundaries. Folklore in Florida is still in the making. Folk tunes, tales, and characters are still emerging from the lush glades of primitive imagination before they can be finally drained by formal education a…
Florida's Migrant Farm Labor
You, the favored inhabitants of the Sun God's Golden Land of pearl-made beaches, conversing palms, persuasive breezes, of little giggling waves which, surprising you on the seashore seeking amusement, steal up and deposit gifts of tinted shells and pebbles at your feet, then dance away to gather more for you; you for whom the more than stately pleasure domes that far surpass the most extravagant dreams of Kubla Khan in Xanadu have been built how …
Spunk
Mules and Men
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing…and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
Black Books Round-up #5 Fall 1979
(1979). Black Books Round-up #5 FALL 1979. The Black Scholar: Vol. 11, Black Education: 25 Years after the Brown Decision, pp. 29-66
Zora Neale Hurston: Hidden Woman [Including a Letter from Zora Neale Hurston to Countee Cullen]
Them Big Old Lies
Voodoo in New Orleans
Voodoo Gods: An Inquiry into Native Myths and Magic in Jamaica and Haiti
The Adventures of the Brown Girl in Her Search for Life
Jonah's Gourd Vine: A Novel (P.S.)
John Pearson begins in poverty, south of Big Creek, yet achieves some schooling, a job and marriage to Lucy. But his persuasive fists and ready tongue can still get him into trouble. Escaping the vigilants, he goes to Sandford, Florida an all-black town, and sends for Lucy and the children
Hoodoo in America
Dance Songs and Tales from the Bahamas
Hoodoo in America
Cudjo's Own Story of the Last African Slaver
Voodoo Gods: An Inquiry into Native Myths and Magic in Jamaica and Haiti
I Saw Negro Votes Peddled (1950)
Reprinted with permission of The American Legion Magazine , © November, 1950. www.legion.org
Folklore and Music
Folklore is the boiled-down juice of human living. It does not belong to any special time, place, nor people. No country is so primitive that it has no lore, no country has yet become so civilized that no folklore is being made within its boundaries. Folklore in Florida is still in the making. Folk tunes, tales, and characters are still emerging from the lush glades of primitive imagination before they can be finally drained by formal education a…
Florida's Migrant Farm Labor
You, the favored inhabitants of the Sun God's Golden Land of pearl-made beaches, conversing palms, persuasive breezes, of little giggling waves which, surprising you on the seashore seeking amusement, steal up and deposit gifts of tinted shells and pebbles at your feet, then dance away to gather more for you; you for whom the more than stately pleasure domes that far surpass the most extravagant dreams of Kubla Khan in Xanadu have been built how …
Dance Songs and Tales from the Bahamas
Communications
Cudjo's Own Story of the Last African Slaver
Dance Songs and Tales from the Bahamas
Hoodoo in America
Jonah's Gourd Vine: A Novel (P.S.)
John Pearson begins in poverty, south of Big Creek, yet achieves some schooling, a job and marriage to Lucy. But his persuasive fists and ready tongue can still get him into trouble. Escaping the vigilants, he goes to Sandford, Florida an all-black town, and sends for Lucy and the children
The Adventures of the Brown Girl in Her Search for Life
Voodoo Gods: An Inquiry into Native Myths and Magic in Jamaica and Haiti
Voodoo in New Orleans
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing…and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
Black Books Round-up #5 Fall 1979
(1979). Black Books Round-up #5 FALL 1979. The Black Scholar: Vol. 11, Black Education: 25 Years after the Brown Decision, pp. 29-66
Zora Neale Hurston: Hidden Woman [Including a Letter from Zora Neale Hurston to Countee Cullen]
Them Big Old Lies
Mules and Men
Folklore and Music
Folklore is the boiled-down juice of human living. It does not belong to any special time, place, nor people. No country is so primitive that it has no lore, no country has yet become so civilized that no folklore is being made within its boundaries. Folklore in Florida is still in the making. Folk tunes, tales, and characters are still emerging from the lush glades of primitive imagination before they can be finally drained by formal education a…
Florida's Migrant Farm Labor
You, the favored inhabitants of the Sun God's Golden Land of pearl-made beaches, conversing palms, persuasive breezes, of little giggling waves which, surprising you on the seashore seeking amusement, steal up and deposit gifts of tinted shells and pebbles at your feet, then dance away to gather more for you; you for whom the more than stately pleasure domes that far surpass the most extravagant dreams of Kubla Khan in Xanadu have been built how …
Spunk
What White Publishers Won’t Print (1950)
Characteristics of Negro Expression (1934)
Zora Neale Hurston: Stories
How it Feels to Be Colored Me
I am colored but I offer nothing in the of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief. I remember the very day that I became colored. Up to my thirteenth year I lived in the little Negro town of Eatonville, Florida. It is exclusively a colored town. The only white people I knew passed through the town going to or coming from Orlando. The na…
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States
Imagine the situations in which these speech acts occur. Recall a front stoop, juke joint, funeral, wedding, barbershop, kitchen: the music, noise, communal energy, and release. Dream. Participate the way you do when you allow a song to transport you, all kinds of songs, from hip-hop rap to Bach to Monk, each bearing its different history of sounds and silences.-- From the Foreword by John Edgar Wideman African-American folklore was Zora Neale Hu…
Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays
Characteristics of Negro Expression (1934)
From Herod the Great
from Herod the Great Zora Neale Hurston Starting in the 1940s, Hurston began work on a novel about Herod the Great, the man who supposedly ordered the deaths of many children in an effort to kill the Christ-child, as the Gospel of Matthew records. Hurston considered the New Testament version of the story to be a blatant distortion of Herod's personal character, religious orientation, and political philosophy. Therefore, in her Herod novel, she wa…
Why the Negro Won’t Buy Communism (1951)
Reprinted with permission of The American Legion Magazine , © June, 1951. www.legion.org
Art (15 works) · History (15 works) · Race, History, and American Society (8 works) · Art history (7 works) · History (7 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · African americans (4 works)