Languages, Literature, and Philosophy

Spanning her career from 1921 to 1955, these stories attest to Hurston's tremendous range and establish themes that recur in her longer fiction.
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The novel is a semi-autobiographical novel describing the migration of characters, similar to her parents, from Alabama to Hurston's home of Eatonville, Florida.
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The novel rewrites the story of the Book of Exodus of Moses and the Israelites from an Afro-American perspective. This work applies a number of different motifs and themes commonly addressed in African-American culture, subverting the Moses story.
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The novel is Hurston's only novel about white characters, exploring "white crackers" in Florida, attempting to create a "true picture of the South." The story follows the experiences of a young woman as she has a fraught relationship with her husband and family.
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This work is considered a classic of the Harlem Renaissance, and Hurston's best known work. The novel explores main character Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny."
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" is a non-fiction work by Zora Neale Hurston. It is based on her interviews in 1927 with Cudjoe Lewis, the (at the time) last presumed living survivor of the Middle Passage.
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This work is a collection of folktales gathered in the 1920s, published posthumously in 2001 after being discovered in the Smithsonian archives.
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Based on Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practices during her visits in the 1930s, this travelogue into a dark world paints a vividly authentic picture of ceremonies and customs and superstitions of great cultural interest.
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The book explores stories Zora Neale Hurston collected in two trips: one in Eatonville and Polk County, Florida, and one in New Orleans. Hurston's decision to focus her research on Florida came from a desire to record the cross-section of black traditions in the state.
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Dust Tracks on a Road is an account of Zora Neale Hurston's rise from poverty in the rural south to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Journalist Valerie Boyd delves into Hurston's history--her youth in the country's first incorporated all-black town, her friendships with luminaries such as Langston Hughes, her sexuality and short-lived marriages, and her mysterious relationship with vodou.
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