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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.
Jones also explains how Zora Neale Hurston shares her sense of humor with her audiences. [2] An important aspect of Zora Neale Hurston's writings, according to Jones, is that even the happiest and funniest characters still get the blues. [2] Jones describes how Hurston shares all walks of life through parents, lovers, children, spouses, and ...
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 ]
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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Most readers know her famous books Their Eyes Were Watching God, Dust Tracks on a Road, Barracoon, and Mules and Men, but here are a few surprising facts about this Guggenheim-winning author. 1.
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This is certainly a central theme in “Sweat”, as we see the abuse and overall mistreatment of Delia by her husband Sykes. Someone interested in expanding on this theme may wish to reference articles such as Zora Neale Hurston and the Survival of the Female by Mary Jane Lupton. Courtney.rolnick 18:47, 5 April 2017 (UTC)