Zora Neale Hurston | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-04

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Zora Neale Hurston


00:02:04 1 Biography
00:02:13 1.1 Early life
00:04:24 1.2 College
00:06:00 1.3 Adulthood
00:07:26 2 Legacy and honors
00:07:51 2.1 Anthropological and folkloric fieldwork
00:12:19 2.2 Death
00:14:06 3 Literary career
00:14:16 3.1 1920s
00:16:25 3.2 1930s
00:18:14 3.3 1940s and 1950s
00:19:17 3.4 Posthumous publications
00:20:02 3.5 Public obscurity
00:22:55 3.6 Posthumous recognition
00:25:36 4 Politics
00:30:54 5 Criticism
00:32:34 6 Selected bibliography
00:34:50 7 Film, television and radio
00:36:50 8 See also
00:37:05 9 Further reading



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Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an influential author of African-American literature and anthropologist, who portrayed racial struggles in the early 20th century American South, and published research on Haitian voodoo. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, her most popular is the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama, and moved to Eatonville, Florida, with her family in 1894.  Eatonville would become the setting for many of her stories and is now the site of the Zora! Festival, held each year in Hurston's honor. In her early career, Hurston conducted anthropological and ethnographic research while attending Barnard College. While in New York she became a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance.  Her short satires, drawing from the African-American experience and racial division, were published in anthologies such as The New Negro and Fire!! After moving back to Florida, Hurston published her literary anthropology on African-American folklore in North Florida, Mules and Men (1935) and her first three novels: Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934); Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937); and Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939).  Also published during this time was Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (1938), documenting her research on rituals in Jamaica and Haiti.
Hurston's works touched on the African-American experience and her struggles as an African-American woman. Her novels went relatively unrecognized by the literary world for decades, but interest revived after author Alice Walker published "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston" in the March 1975 issue of Ms. Magazine. Hurston's manuscript Every Tongue Got to Confess (2001), a collection of folktales gathered in the 1920s, was published posthumously after being discovered in the Smithsonian archives. Her nonfiction book Barracoon was published posthumously in 2018.