Alice Walker And Zora Neale Hurston

Author : Lillie P. Howard
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993-11-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032839311

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Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston by Lillie P. Howard Pdf

Introduction : Alice and Zora--"The call and the response" / Lillie P. Howard -- Zora Neale Hurston : a cautionary tale and a partisan view / Alice Walker -- Settling the dust : tracking Zora through Alice Walker's "The revenge of Hannah Kemhuff" / Mary L. Navarro and Mary H. Sims -- Our people, our people / Trudier Harris -- A sense of wonder : the pattern for psychic survival in Their eyes were watching God and The color purple / Alice Fannin -- "That which the soul lives by" : spirituality in the works of Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker / Mary Ann Wilson -- Redemption through redemption of the self in Their eyes were watching God and The color purple / Emma J. Waters Dawson -- Women and words : articulating the self in Their eyes were watching God and The color purple / Valerie Babb -- Searching for Zora in Alice's garden : rites of passage in Hurston's Their eyes were watching God and Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland / JoAnne Cornwell -- Dynamics of change : men and co-feeling in the fiction of Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker / Ann Folwell Stanford -- Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker : a transcendent relationship--Jonah's gourd vine and The color purple / Ayana Karanja -- Benediction : a few words about The temple of my familiar, variously experienced, and Possessing the secret of joy / Lillie P. Howard.

Author : Alice Walker
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0156028646

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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker Pdf

Walker's essays and articles written between 1966 and 1982 discuss the concept and influence of art and the artist's life, criticisms of authors such as Jean Toomer and Zora Neale Hurston, studies in the civil rights movement and feminist movement, and her own ideas while writing her book "The Color Purple."

Author : Nava Atlas
Publisher : Sellers Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1416206329

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The Literary Ladies' Guide to the Writing Life by Nava Atlas Pdf

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 : Robert E. Hemenway
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252008073

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Zora Neale Hurston by Robert E. Hemenway Pdf

Traces the life and literary career of Zora Neal Hurston.

Author : Peter Bagge
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770463561

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Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story by Peter Bagge Pdf

A bold retelling of the life of the Their Eyes Were Watching God author Peter Bagge has defied the expectations of the comics industry by changing gears from his famous slacker hero Buddy Bradley to documenting the life and times of historical 20th century trailblazers. If Bagge had not already had a New York Times bestseller with his biography of Margaret Sanger, his newest biography, Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story, would seem to be an unfathomable pairing of author and subject. Yet through Bagge’s skilled cartooning, he turns what could be a rote biography into a bold and dazzling graphic novel, creating a story as brilliant as the life itself. Hurston challenged the norms of what was expected of an African American woman in early 20th century society. The fifth of eight kids from a Baptist family in Alabama, Hurston’s writing prowess blossomed at Howard University, and then Barnard College, where she was the sole black student. She arrived in NYC at the height of the Harlem Renaissance and quickly found herself surrounded by peers such as Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman. Hurston went on to become a noted folklorist and critically acclaimed novelist, including her most provocative work Their Eyes Were Watching God. Despite these landmark achievements, personal tragedies and shifting political winds in the midcentury rendered her almost forgotten by the end of her life. With admiration and respect, Bagge reconstructs her vivid life in resounding full-colour.

Author : Carla Kaplan, Ph.D.
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307430366

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Zora Neale Hurston by Carla Kaplan, Ph.D. Pdf

“ I mean to live and die by my own mind,” Zora Neale Hurston told the writer Countee Cullen. Arriving in Harlem in 1925 with little more than a dollar to her name, Hurston rose to become one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance, only to die in obscurity. Not until the 1970s was she rediscovered by Alice Walker and other admirers. Although Hurston has entered the pantheon as one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century, the true nature of her personality has proven elusive. Now, a brilliant, complicated and utterly arresting woman emerges from this landmark book. Carla Kaplan, a noted Hurston scholar, has found hundreds of revealing, previously unpublished letters for this definitive collection; she also provides extensive and illuminating commentary on Hurston’s life and work, as well as an annotated glossary of the organizations and personalities that were important to it. From her enrollment at Baltimore’s Morgan Academy in 1917, to correspondence with Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Langston Hughes, Dorothy West and Alain Locke, to a final query letter to her publishers in 1959, Hurston’s spirited correspondence offers an invaluable portrait of a remarkable, irrepressible talent.

Author : Alice Walker
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453223987

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You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down by Alice Walker Pdf

Women stand their ground in the midst of crisis in this story collection by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Color Purple. This collection builds on Alice Walker’s earlier work, the much-praised In Love & Trouble. But unlike her first collection of stories, the women in these tenderly wrought tales face their problems head on, proving powerful and self-possessed even when degraded by others—sometimes by those closest to them. But even as the female protagonists face exploitation, social asymmetries, and casual cruelties, Walker leavens her stories with ample wit and, as always, an eye for the redemptive power of love. A collection that reveals a master of fiction approaching the fullness of her talent, these are the stories Walker produced while penning The Color Purple. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Old Westbury, N.Y. : The Feminist Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015020755602

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I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive by Zora Neale Hurston Pdf

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 14 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. In addition to six essays and short stories, the collection includes excerpts from Dust Tracks on the Road; Mules and Me; Tell My Horse; Jonah's Gourd Vine; Moses, Man of the Mountain; and Their Eyes Were Watching God. 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, the person-as well as into American social and cultural history.

Author : Lillie P. Howard
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313257902

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Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston by Lillie P. Howard Pdf

Introduction : Alice and Zora--"The call and the response" / Lillie P. Howard -- Zora Neale Hurston : a cautionary tale and a partisan view / Alice Walker -- Settling the dust : tracking Zora through Alice Walker's "The revenge of Hannah Kemhuff" / Mary L. Navarro and Mary H. Sims -- Our people, our people / Trudier Harris -- A sense of wonder : the pattern for psychic survival in Their eyes were watching God and The color purple / Alice Fannin -- "That which the soul lives by" : spirituality in the works of Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker / Mary Ann Wilson -- Redemption through redemption of the self in Their eyes were watching God and The color purple / Emma J. Waters Dawson -- Women and words : articulating the self in Their eyes were watching God and The color purple / Valerie Babb -- Searching for Zora in Alice's garden : rites of passage in Hurston's Their eyes were watching God and Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland / JoAnne Cornwell -- Dynamics of change : men and co-feeling in the fiction of Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker / Ann Folwell Stanford -- Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker : a transcendent relationship--Jonah's gourd vine and The color purple / Ayana Karanja -- Benediction : a few words about The temple of my familiar, variously experienced, and Possessing the secret of joy / Lillie P. Howard.

Author : Valerie Boyd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780684842301

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Wrapped in Rainbows by Valerie Boyd Pdf

Traces the career of the influential African-American writer, citing the historical backdrop of her life and work while considering her relationships with and influences on top literary, intellectual, and artistic figures.

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9394270205

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Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston Pdf

"Warm, witty, imaginative. . . . This is a rich and winning book."-The New Yorker.The autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, one of America's most captivating and important authors, Dust Tracks on a Road, is daring, heartbreaking, and humorous. Hurston's dramatic Southern books, such as Jonah's Gourd Vine and, most famously, Their Eyes Were Watching God, continue to captivate readers with their lyrical beauty, piercing detail, and compelling emotionality. Dust Tracks on a Road was first published in 1942 and tells Hurston's personal narrative in her own words.

Author : Alice Walker
Publisher : Tra Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1734761814

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Sweet People Are Everywhere by Alice Walker Pdf

Sweet People Are Everywhere, an illustrated picture book featuring a poem by internationally renowned writer and activist Alice Walker, is a powerful celebration of humanity. The poem addresses a young boy getting his first passport, taking the boy––and the reader––on a journey through a series of countries around the globe where “sweet people” can be found. Sweet People Are Everywhere, an illustrated picture book for children ages 4–8 (and readers of all ages) by internationally renowned writer and activist Alice Walker, focuses on a common thread of the “sweet people” who can be found all over the world. The poem addresses a young boy getting his first passport, taking the boy––and the reader––on a journey through a series of countries around the globe. The poem is a powerful celebration of humanity and globalism, embodying a generosity of spirit that is inspiring, timely, and timeless. After journeying through dozens of countries and pointing out the sweet people in each place, Walker writes these beautiful, hopeful, and haunting words: We are lost if we can no longer experience how sweet human beings can be. Promise me never to forget this. The book’s full-color illustrations by Quim Torres include a world map highlighting the many countries referenced, and the book includes an interview with Alice Walker. The evocative free verse poem was first published in Walker’s 2018 poetry collection Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart, winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Library Journal praised the book for its “poems of love and hope” and, in a starred review, Booklist commended Walker’s “prodding wisdom of an elder suggesting that we can cope by taking comfort in beauty, friendship, and human kindness; by always expressing gratitude; and by turning inward to hold ourselves accountable for what we contribute.” Sweet People Are Everywhere is Walker’s sixth book for children, and it explores and builds on some of the same themes as her 2007 title Why War Is Never a Good Idea; her first children’s book was Langston Hughes: American Poet (1974).

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0800074149

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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Pdf

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780062748225

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Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston Pdf

New York Times Bestseller • TIME Magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 • New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 • NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 • Economist Book of the Year • SELF.com’s Best Books of 2018 • Audible’s Best of the Year • BookRiot’s Best Audio Books of 2018 • The Atlantic’s Books Briefing: History, Reconsidered • Atlanta Journal Constitution, Best Southern Books 2018 • The Christian Science Monitor’s Best Books 2018 • “A profound impact on Hurston’s literary legacy.”—New York Times “One of the greatest writers of our time.”—Toni Morrison “Zora Neale Hurston’s genius has once again produced a Maestrapiece.”—Alice Walker A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade—abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States. In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation’s history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo’s firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States. In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship. Spending more than three months there, she talked in depth with Cudjo about the details of his life. During those weeks, the young writer and the elderly formerly enslaved man ate peaches and watermelon that grew in the backyard and talked about Cudjo’s past—memories from his childhood in Africa, the horrors of being captured and held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers, the harrowing experience of the Middle Passage packed with more than 100 other souls aboard the Clotilda, and the years he spent in slavery until the end of the Civil War. Based on those interviews, featuring Cudjo’s unique vernacular, and written from Hurston’s perspective with the compassion and singular style that have made her one of the preeminent American authors of the twentieth-century, Barracoon masterfully illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it. Offering insight into the pernicious legacy that continues to haunt us all, black and white, this poignant and powerful work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture.

Author : Salamishah Tillet
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683356851

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In Search of The Color Purple by Salamishah Tillet Pdf

Mixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir, an exploration of Alice Walker’s critically acclaimed and controversial novel, The Color Purple Alice Walker made history in 1983 when she became the ï¬?rst black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Color Purple. Published in the Reagan era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the Jazz Age novel tells the story of racial and gender inequality through the life of a 14-year-old girl from Georgia who is haunted by domestic and sexual violence. Prominent academic and activist Salamishah Tillet combines cultural criticism, history, and memoir to explore Walker’s epistolary novel and shows how it has influenced and been informed by the zeitgeist. The Color Purple received both praise and criticism upon publication, and the conversation it sparked around race and gender still continues today. It has been adapted for an Oscar-nominated ï¬?lm and a hit Broadway musical. Through archival research and interviews with Walker, Oprah Winfrey, and Quincy Jones (among others), Tillet studies Walker’s life and how themes of violence emerged in her earlier work. Reading The Color Purple at age 15 was a groundbreaking experience for Tillet. It continues to resonate with her—as a sexual violence survivor, as a teacher of the novel, and as an accomplished academic. Provocative and personal, In Search of The Color Purple is a bold work from an important public intellectual, and captures Alice Walker’s seminal role in rethinking sexuality, intersectional feminism, and racial and gender politics.