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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.
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 ]
Zora Neale Hurston: Flame From The Dark Tower, A Section of Poetry: Countee Cullen, Helene Johnson, Edward Silvera, Waring Cuney, Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Lewis Alexander: Drawing: Richard Bruce Wedding Day, A Story: Gwendolyn Bennett: Three Drawings: Aaron Douglas Smoke, Lilies And Jade, A Novel, Part I: Richard Bruce Sweat, A Story ...
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 ...
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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]
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston: Nominee Susan Fales-Hill: Always Wear Joy: My Mother Bold and Beautiful: Nominee Regina Louise: Somebody's Someone: Nominee 2005 Alexis De Veaux: Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde: Winner [7] Debra J. Dickerson: The End of Blackness: Finalist Howard French: A Continent for the Taking ...
An award-winning researcher and teacher, she was named the Board of Governors Zora Neale Hurston Professor in 2007. [ 4 ] Wall had a lifelong commitment to African-American arts and culture and was the founding board chair of the Crossroads Theater Company , the first Black Theater in New Jersey , founded by two Rutgers graduates, Ricardo Khan ...