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Robert E. Hemenway (Author), Alice Walker (Foreword)
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0252008073 978-0252008078 September 1, 1980 1st
Good source book for the Harlem Renaissance period with extensive notes & bibliography.

CONTENTS: Foreword by Alice Walker * Jump at the Sun: 1905-25 * Harlem City * From the Earliest Rocking of My Cradle * Do You Know Any Folktales? * Godmother and Big Sweet: 1927-31 * 'Mule Bone' * The Will to Adorn * Plough Up Some Literary * Crayon Enlargements of Life * Voodoo Gods and Biblical Men * Ambiguities of Self, Politics of Race * The Pots in Sorrow's Kitchen * Appendix: A Checklist of Writings of Zora Neale Hurston

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"Integrates zestful narrative with piercing literary criticism." -- Washington Post Book World

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  • Paperback: 371 pages
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press; 1st edition (September 1, 1980)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0252008073
  • ISBN-13: 978-0252008078
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #540,236 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Zora: a funny, fascinating story teller, August 6, 2007
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I studied Zora Hurston in a Southern women's writer's class and fell in love with her wit, truthfulness, cattiness, and charm. She's one of the best, if not the best, black women writers of the past. She keeps her writing in the southern black dialect that makes it most appealing and real. I have all her books, words on cassette, and a video, "Zora is My Name." This book is good to use for a discussion group.
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In the first week of January, 1925, Zora Neale Hurston arrived in New York City with one dollar and fifty cents in her purse, no job, no friends, but filled with "a lot of hope." Read the first page
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