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Zora Neale Hurston, novelist and ethnographer was born January 7, 1891 Born in Alabama and raised in Eatonville, Florida, the locale of her main character Janie’s second marriage, Zora Neale Hurston left home to study at Howard University and earned a B.A. in anthropology from Barnard College. As a trained ethnographer and folklorist, she traveled to Jamaica and Haiti and returned to her own environs of Florida to collect folktales, songs, and anecdotes, which found their way into her fiction and nonfiction. An online exhibit from Rollins College, Zora Neale Hurston and the Harlem Renaissance: Searching for Identity, connects Hurston’s works with other artists of that movement’s remarkable surge of African American poetry, music, theatre, and books in the 1920s and 1930s. It also identifies major themes in her writing. This is an excellent resource for exploring links between Zora Neale Hurston and contemporary artists. social.rollins.edu/wpsites/mosaic-hurston/2011/07/12/zora-neale-hurston-and-the-harlem-renaissance-searching-for-identity/ Their Eyes Were Watching God: Folk Speech and Figurative Body Language edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/their-eyes-were-watching-god-folk-speech-and-figurative-language#sect-introduction
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 20:26:31 +0000

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