"Sweat" (Women Writers (New Brunswick, N.J.).) - Zora Neale Hurston
KORTE INHOUD
This anthology of Zora Neale Hurston's work includes ""Sweat"" and ""The Gilded Six-Bits"". The volume also includes the 1934 essay ""Characteristics of Negro-Expression"", with excerpts from her autobiography ""Dust Tracks on the Road"" - with critical commentary.
Now frequently anthologized, Zora Neale Hurston's short story "Sweat" was first published in Firell, a legendary literary magazine of the Harlem Renaissance, whose sole issue appeared in November 1926. Among contributions by Gwendolyn Bennett, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Wallace Thurman, "Sweat" stood out both for its artistic accomplishment and its exploration of rural Southern black life. 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 ve...
Now frequently anthologized, Zora Neale Hurston's short story "Sweat" was first published in Firell, a legendary literary magazine of the Harlem Renaissance, whose sole issue appeared in November 1926. Among contributions by Gwendolyn Bennett, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Wallace Thurman, "Sweat" stood out both for its artistic accomplishment and its exploration of rural Southern black life. 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 ve...
Details
1997Uitgever: Rutgers University Press200 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0813523168ISBN-13: 9780813523163Koop dit boek tweedehands
bij volgende verkopers
1 foto's
Stel vraag Boek
Engelstalige paperback, in nieuwstaat; 1997; Rutgers University Press; 233 pagina's; Titel: Sweat; Ref: 232208 / U50PXF1
