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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

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vendredi 14 novembre 2008 [n° 2244]

Zora Neale Hurston at the New York Times Book Fair

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“Une femme noire”

Zora Neale Hurston participa à la Renaissance de Harlem en produisant le magazine littéraire Fire!! 1 avec Langston Hughes et Wallace Thurman. Elle s’intéressa au folklore noir-américain et au vaudou haïtien.

Une “femme noire“, paru en 1937, est l’œuvre majeure de Zora Neale Hurston à laquelle se réfèrent toujours des romancières comme Toni Morrison ou Paule Marshall. “Il s’agit du premier roman explicitement féministe de la littérature afro-américaine. Cependant elle est attaquée et mal comprise, à cause de l’ usage du langage argotique et dialectale dans ses romans ainsi que pour ses vues sur l’intégration”. 2

Zora Neale Hurston, celebrated anthropologist, journalist, essayist, playwright, and bestselling novelist, was a twentieth-century visionary who infused her work with the customs and folk traditions of the black American South.

Judith Wilson :

Zora Neale Hurston had figured out something that no other black author of her time seems to have known or appreciated so well–that our home-spun vernacular and street-corner cosmology is as valuable as the grammar and philosophy of white, Western culture.3

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Zora Neale Hurston The official Zora Neale Hurston website

Zora Neale Hurston 1891 – 1960 voices.cla.umn.edu

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) Teacher Resource File

Bibliography

Jonah’s Gourd Vine (1934)
Mules and Men (1935)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Tell My Horse (1938)
Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939)
Dust Tracks on a Road (1942)
Seraph on the Suwanee (1948)
I Love Myself: When I Am Laughing … and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader (1979)
The Sanctified Church: The Folklore Writings of Zora Neale Hurston (1981)
Spunk: The Selected Stories of Zora Neale Hurston (1985)
Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life, with Langston Hughes (1991)


  1. Only one issue of Fire!! was ever published. Fire!! challenged the ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois, who believed that black art should serve as propaganda, and many within the African American bourgeoisie, who sought social equality and racial integration. Thurman attempted to show the real lives of African Americans, both the good and the bad. He stated that black artists should be more objective in their writings and not so self-conscious that they did not acknowledge and celebrate the arduous conditions of African-American lives. This was in contrast to African-American leaders and middles class who saw the goal of the New Negro movement as showing white Americans that blacks were not inferior. [back]
  2. Zora Neale Hurston et les écrivains afro-américains de la Renaissance de Harlem sont évoqués dans le Brother to brother, le premier long métrage de Rodney Evans, qui fait le parallèle entre le New York des années 80 et celui des années 30, en traitant de la condition des Noirs et de l’homosexualité [back]
  3. Zora Neale Hurston aalbc.com [back]
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