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Group Six--EWWG

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Facts

 


 

 

Group members

 

  • Brianna  W.
  • Chad Mc.

 

Zora Neale Hurston

          

  • She was born on January 7, 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama.
  • In 1925 she went to New York City, drawn by the circle of creative black artists, and she began writing fiction
  • Zora Neale Hurston's best-known work was published in 1937: Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Zora Neale Hurston was the fifth child born to Lucy Ann Potts and John Hurston
  • She worked as a playwrite, an anthropologist, a high school and college Drama professor, a director, a librarian, a producer, and in her latter and more impoverished years a maid.
  • For several years, she traveled around the South, Hati, and Jamaica to collect local folklore.
  • Hurston died in 1960 in the Saint Lucie County Welfare Home after suffering complications from a stroke

 

Sources

 

  1. http://womenshistory.about.com/od/hurstonzoraneale/p/hurston_bio.htm

  2. http://dclibrary.org/blkren/bios/hurstonzn.html

  3. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Grand-Jean/Hurston/Chapters/Zorabio.html

  4. http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/epstein2.html

 

Their Eyes Were Watching God

 

  • Hurston's novel begins with Janie Crawford's homecoming.

  • At one point, a photographer takes a picture of all of the children. While examining the photograph, Janie realizes that she is black; until then she had thought she was like all of the white children.
  • Janie decides her conscious life began at age sixteen, when she has her first revelations about love, sexuality, and identity
  • The story is told in flashback of her best friend Pheoby
  • Janie was seen kissing a boy so her grandmother forces Janie to marry an older man but then Janie runs off

 

Sources

 

  1. http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/epstein2.html

  2. http://www.novelguide.com/theireyeswerewatchinggod/novelsummary.html
  3. http://www.answers.com/topic/their-eyes-were-watching-god

 

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