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For English Class at JC with Mrs. Zurkowski and other literature related things. Quarter 4

Monday, April 4, 2011

Zora Neale Hurston


  1. Zora Hurston was a fiction writer who was born in Notasulga, Alabama in 1891. 
  2. She was raised in Eatonsville, the first all Black town in the US.
  3. She gathered a lot of folklore for her stories from Jamaica, Bermuda, Honduras, and from returning to Eatonsville for anthropolical studies. 
  4. She is noted for her metaphorical speech, her storytelling abilities, and her interest in Southern Black Culture in the US in her writing.
  5. Her most famous book was "Their Eyes Were Watching God" which was about a womans search, over 25 years and 3 marriage, searching for her true identity.
  6. Her writing wasn't political but her characters use of dialect, and her portraying of black culture raised a lot of controversy among the black community.
  7. She went over issues of race in Gender in her career, often relating it to finding freedom.
  8. In her late years she had health problems and died unnoticed by the literary community but her writing was discovered in 1970's by a new generation of black writers.
  9. She studied at three colleges: Barnard university, Columbia University, and Howard University for anthropology.
  10. Her writings influenced writers of the harlem renaissance, and writers in the 1970's.
info from

"Zora Neale Hurston." Microsoft® Student 2009 [DVD]. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Corporation, 2008.
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http://www.zoranealehurston.com/books/their_eyes_were_watching_god.html

1 comment:

  1. Cole,
    OUTSTANDING 4th quarter blog! Your posts are so interesting and your images are excellent. I like how your poem looks on your blog too. The only correction that I see is that you needed two examples about Chris per chapter, but your quotes are long and detailed. Excellent work!
    150/150 A+

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