Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher: Marlowe & Company
ISBN: 9781569247433
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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A delightful collection portraying the energy and dynamism of black culture includes the noted author's early works and follows her evolution into a literary genius and contains such stories as "Muttsy," "Isis," "Spunk," and more. Reprint. IP.
Author: Nava Atlas
Publisher: Sellers Publishing
ISBN: 9781416206323
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Popular author Nava Atlas explores the writing life of famous women writers in this beautifully designed and illustrated book. The journals, letters, and diaries of twelve celebrated women writers, including Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Madeleine L Engle, Anais Nin, George Sand, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf, illuminate the author s creative process. Nava s own insightful commentary provides reassuring tips and advice on such subjects as dealing with rejection, money matters, and balancing family with the solitary writing process that will resonate with women writers in today s world. With 100+ vintage photos, illustrations, and ephemera, this book is a splendid gift book for writers.
Author: Chic Street Man
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822217558
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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THE STORY: Hurston's evocative prose and Wolfe's unique theatrical style blend to create an evening of theatre that celebrates the human spirit's ability to overcome and endure. Utilizing the blues, choral narrative and dance, the three tales focus
Author: Arthur Plotnik
Publisher: Random House Reference Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Presents a comprehensive guide to creating winning manuscripts that will sell, and provide tips and techniques on language, dialogue, diction and more.
Author: Alain Locke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062915819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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From “one of the greatest writers of our time” (Toni Morrison)—the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God—a collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time. New York Times’ Books to Watch for Buzzfeed’s Most Anticipated Books Newsweek’s Most Anticipated Books Forbes.com’s Most Anticipated Books E!’s Top Books to Read Glamour’s Best Books Essence’s Best Books by Black Authors In 1925, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston—the sole black student at the college—was living in New York, “desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world.” During this period, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later, this singular talent is recognized as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the modern period. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston’s “lost” Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humor, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of Hurston’s world. All are timeless classics that enrich our understanding and appreciation of this exceptional writer’s voice and her contributions to America’s literary traditions.
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813542928
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Collected plays of the African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960).
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher: Read & Company Classics
ISBN: 9781528720526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston explores a battle between physical and moral strength in this pocket-sized short story, 'Spunk'. Set in an all-Black community in rural America, this short story poses the question of whether moral strength is more powerful than physical strength. Spunk Banks is described as a 'giant'. He is unafraid of anything and when he openly flaunts his affair with Lena Kanty, Joe Kanty's wife, the other men in the neighbourhood are afraid to confront him. Word of the affair gets back to Joe, who decides to threaten Spunk with a razor. Undeterred, Spunk shoots Joe dead and moves in with his widow. But when a bobcat begins to circle their house, Spunk becomes convinced that Joe has returned from the dead to avenge him. Zora Neale Hurston's short story was published in the Opportunity, A Journal of Negro Life in 1925, and later won second place in the journal's fiction writing contest. 'Spunk' was also selected for publication in The New Negro, helping to secure Hurston's successful career as a writer. Now in a brand new pocket-sized edition featuring an introductory essay on the Harlem Renaissance, 'Spunk' would make the perfect read for fans of short stories and Hurston's work.
Author: Yuval Taylor
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393243923
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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A Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography “A complete pleasure to read.” —Lisa Page, Washington Post Novelist Zora Neale Hurston and poet Langston Hughes, two of America’s greatest writers, first met in New York City in 1925. Drawn to each other, they helped launch a radical journal, Fire!! Later, meeting by accident in Alabama, they became close as they traveled together—Hurston interviewing African Americans for folk stories, Hughes getting his first taste of the deep South. By illuminating their lives, work, competitiveness, and ambitions, Yuval Taylor savvily details how their friendship and literary collaborations dead-ended in acrimonious accusations.
