Zora Neale Hurston : author and anthropologist

The Resource Zora Neale Hurston : author and anthropologist
Label
Zora Neale Hurston : author and anthropologist
Title remainder
author and anthropologist
Statement of responsibility
Samuel Willard Crompton and Charlotte Etinde-Crompton
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Contributor
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"Like many artists before her, Zora Neale Hurston received virtually no recognition for her work until after her death. Hurston began her career as an anthropologist, observing and documenting the tension of race relations in the American South. She strove to expose the horrific practice of "paramour rights, " wherein white men sexually exploited black women in their employment. But this work and her later fiction (including the now famous Their Eyes Were Watching God) would end up in relative obscurity as her fictional portrayal of African American dialect was criticized as offensive and her political views were often less progressive than those of her contemporaries. With engaging, accessible text, this biography gives readers a fuller picture of this complicated writer and woman"--
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Provided by publisher
Biography type
individual biography
Cataloging source
LBSOR/DLC
Dewey number
  • 813/.52
  • B
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PS3515.U789
LC item number
Z68 2019
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Celebrating Black artists
Target audience
juvenile
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