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This Library of America volume, with its companion, brings together for the first time all of the best writing of Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most significant twentieth-century American writers, in one authoritative set."Folklore is the arts of the people, " Hurston wrote, "before they find out that there is any such thing as art." A pioneer of African-American ethnography who did graduate study in anthropology with the renowned Franz Boas,...

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Zora Neale Hurston's tragic 1926 play Color Struck is a thought-provoking commentary on colorism within the Black community.

One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison 'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston ... her words make it impossible for readers to consider her anything but one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century.' The New York Times Book Review

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Strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained . . . an unusual and intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information."¿New York Times Book Review. This travelogue into a dark world, based on Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica during her visits in the 1930s, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practises, paints a vividly authentic picture of the ceremonies, ...

Strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained . . . an unusual and intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information."¿New York Times Book Review. This travelogue into a dark world, based on Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica during her visits in the 1930s, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practises, paints a vividly authentic picture of the ceremonies, ...

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Tales as old as time, retold with utmost grace. From the storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed an oral history since the time of slavery, comes the treasury of Black America's folklore. Set intimately within the social context of Black life, the stories, "big old lies, " songs, voodoo customs, and superstitions recorded in these pages capture the imagination and brin...

2020 Reprint of the 1927 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Roughly 60 years after the abolition of slavery, anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston made an incredible connection: She located one of the last surviving captives of the last slave ship to bring Africans to the United States. Hurston, a known figure of the Harlem Renaissance who would later write the novel Their Eyes Wer...

A First Folktale from the creators of Magnolia Flower, Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi, about the origin of butterflies.The Creator wuz all finished and thru makin' de world.But soon, the Creator finds themselves flying through the sky, making gorgeous butterflies of every color, shape, and size.Find out why butterflies were made in Zora Neale Hurston's stunning and layered African American folktale retold by #1 New York Times bestsellin...

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic s...

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From the prolific Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston, 'Spunk' and 'Sweat' are thought-provoking short stories set in the heart of African-American communities following the civil war. 'Spunk', first published in 1925, is set in an all-Black community in rural America and poses the question of whether moral strength is more powerful than physical strength. Spunk Banks is described as a 'giant'. He is unafraid of anything or anyone,...

Sweat' is an early feminist short story by Harlem Renaissance writer, Zora Neale Hurston. This pocket-sized tale presents the contrasting lives of a married couple: the sweat and toil of Delia and the leisure and privilege of her husband, Sykes.

Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston explores a battle between physical and moral strength in this pocket-sized short story, 'Spunk'.