"Sweat" (Women Writers (New Brunswick, N.J.).)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: March 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780813523163
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Other prose: from c 1900 -; Sweat; Fiction - General; African American women in literature; English; Literary Criticism; USA; General; African American women in lite; American - African American; African American women; Fiction; Hurston, Zora Neale; Hurston, Zora Neale.
Description: Now frequently anthologized, Zora Neale Hurston's short story "Sweat" was first published in Fire!!, a legendary literary magazine of the Harlem Renaissance, whose sole issue appeared in November 1926.

In "Sweat" Hurston claimed the voice that animates her mature fiction, notably the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God; the themes of marital conflict and the development of spiritual consciousness were introduced as well. "Sweat" exemplifies Hurston's lifelong concern with women's relation to language and the literary possibilities of black vernacular.

This casebook for this story includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of the author's life, the authoritative text of "Sweat," and a second story, "The Gilded Six-Bits." Published in 1932, this second story was written after Hurston had spent years conducting fieldwork in the southern United States.