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"Sweat" is a short story by the American writer Zora Neale Hurston, first published in 1926, [1] in the first and only issue of the African-American literary magazine Fire!! The story revolves around a washerwoman and her unemployed husband.
The introduction to Zora Neale Hurston's, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick, dated October 22, 2019, was written by Genevieve West. West makes the case that Hurston was ahead of her time in her critiques of race, gender, class, and art, and that she used romance to explore these topics. [3]
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 [1]: 17 [2]: 5 – January 28, 1960) was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou . [ 3 ]
Hurston died in 1960, and her work languished in obscurity. In 1975, Alice Walker penned an essay for Ms. Magazine titled “In Search of Zora Neale Hurston,” which revived interest in the ...
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston (Page 15) Whoever said “One is the loneliest number” has clearly never read Hurston’s 1937 masterpiece. Over the course of the novel’s ...
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Zora & Me, by Victoria Bond and R.R. Simon. This beautifully written novel is narrated by Zora Neale Hurston’s fictionalized childhood best friend, Carrie, who just like every other child in her ...
Spunk is a play by American playwright George C. Wolfe and is an adaptation of three stories by Zora Neale Hurston: "Sweat," "Story in Harlem Slang" and "The Gilded Six Bits." [1] [2] Wolfe won a 1989 Obie award for best off-Broadway director for Spunk.