Years later, scholars would argue that the play was a true collaboration by two great talents of the Harlem Renaissance. Zora survived the Great Depression by publishing fiction while working. Zora earned a Guggenheim fellowship to study in Jamaica and Haiti.
In , she published Of Mules and Men, an anthropological study of the folklore she gathered during travels through Florida and New Orleans. At the same time, Zora continued to write fiction. In both books, Zora explored the lives of Black Americans in the South. Their Eyes Were Watching God was particularly important because it provided insight into the experiences of Southern Black women. She relied on her research to incorporate local dialects and folklore into the novel. Her hope was to create a socially and emotionally realistic depiction of life in her home state of Florida.
Some felt that Zora glossed over the violent racism and suppression Black Americans faced. They also worried that her portrayal of Southern Black dialects and folkways out of context furthered racist stereotypes. Others did not like that Zora often created violent characters in her plays and novels who were also sympathetic.
As an author and social scientist, Zora sought to present the world as she saw it. She did not believe it was her role to pass judgment. She published an unsuccessful novel and a popular autobiography.
However, none of her writing brought much financial success. Zora resorted to taking odd jobs as a maid, teacher, journalist, and clerk to pay her bills. As the Black civil rights movement expanded in the United States, new generations of activists questioned her work. Her publications were often dismissed as too traditional and narrow by new generations of Black activists. In , Zora suffered a stroke. She had very little money and moved into the St.
Lucie County Welfare Home in Florida. On January 28, , she died of heart complications and was buried in an unmarked grave. Although relatively unknown at her death, Zora was an important female voice in the largely male literary world of the Harlem Renaissance. Her work inspired—and continues to inspire—future generations of artists, authors, and anthropologists. In a professional context it often happens that private or corporate clients corder a publication to be made and presented with the actual content still not being ready.
However, reviewers tend to be distracted by comprehensible content, say, a random text copied from a newspaper or the internet. The are likely to focus on. Together, the group of writers joined the black cultural renaissance which was taking place in Harlem. Throughout her life, Hurston, dedicated herself to promoting and studying black culture. She traveled to both Haiti and Jamaica to study the religions of the African diaspora. Her findings were also included in several newspapers throughout the United States.
Hurston often incorporated her research into her fictional writing. As an author Hurston, started publishing short stories as early as Unfortunately, her work was ignored by the mainstream literary audience for years. However, she gained a following among African Americans. In , she published Mules and Men.
She later, collaborated with Langston Hughes to create the play, Mule Bone. She published three books between and One of her most popular works was Their Eyes were Watching God. The fictional story chronicled the tumultuous life of Janie Crawford. Hurston broke literary norms by focusing her work on the experience of a black woman.
Hurston was not only a writer, she also dedicated her life to educating others about the arts. Du Bois to create "a cemetery for the illustrious Negro dead" to assure that they'd never be discarded. Her rejected proposal read in part: "Let no Negro celebrity, no matter what financial condition they might be in at death, lie in inconspicuous forgetfulness. We must assume the responsibility of their graves being known and honored.
This confident and rebellious creator's contribution to the Harlem Renaissance seemed certain to have doomed her to the realm of the forgotten. But in , Alice Walker, who would go on to write the heralded novel The Color Purple , penned a legacy-shifting essay for Ms. Their Eyes Were Watching God found a new life, and began popping up on school reading curriculums and earning reprintings in other languages, as did her other books. Mule Bone was finally published and staged in Historians scoured archives and uncovered a never-published manuscript of folklore Hurston had collected.
Not only were Hurston's works at long last given their due—so was she. In honor of the author who'd inspired her and countless others, Walker traveled to Florida to put a proper tombstone on Hurston's grave. Novelist, folklorist, anthropologist. BY Kristy Puchko. Zora Neale Hurston drumming, In , she published her autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road, a personal work that was well-received by critics. In the s, Hurston explored the fine arts through a number of different projects.
Hurston was charged with molesting a year-old boy in ; despite strong evidence that the accusation was false, her reputation suffered greatly in the aftermath.
Additionally, Hurston experienced some backlash for her criticism of the U. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education , which called for the end of school segregation.
For all her accomplishments, Hurston struggled financially and personally during her final decade. She kept writing, but she had difficulty getting her work published. A few years later, Hurston had suffered several strokes and was living in the St. Lucie County Welfare Home. The once-famous writer and folklorist died poor and alone on January 28, , and was buried in an unmarked grave in Fort Pierce, Florida.
More than a decade after her death, another great talent helped to revive interest in Hurston and her work: Alice Walker wrote about Hurston in the essay "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston," published in Ms.
Walker's essay helped introduce Hurston to a new generation of readers and encouraged publishers to print new editions of Hurston's long-out-of-print novels and other writings. Robert Hemenway's acclaimed biography, Zora Neale Hurston , continued the renewal of interest in the forgotten literary great.
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