Bibliograph

Sweat, Zora Neale Hurston ; edited and with an introduction by Cheryl A. Wall

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Sweat, Zora Neale Hurston ; edited and with an introduction by Cheryl A. Wall

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-232)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Sweat

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

35292679

Responsibility statement

Zora Neale Hurston ; edited and with an introduction by Cheryl A. Wall

Series statement

Women writers

Summary

Now frequently anthologized, Zora Neale Hurston's short story "Sweat" was first published in Fire!!, a legendary literary magazine of the Harlem Renaissance, whose sole issue appeared in November 1926. In "Sweat" Hurston claimed the voice that animates her mature fiction, notably the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God; the themes of marital conflict and the development of spiritual consciousness were introduced as well. "Sweat" exemplifies Hurston's lifelong concern with women's relation to language and the literary possibilities of black vernacular." "This casebook for this story includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of the author's life, the authoritative text of "Sweat," and a second story, "The Gilded Six-Bits." Published in 1932, this second story was written after Hurston had spent years conducting fieldwork in the southern United States

Table Of Contents

Introduction / Cheryl A. Wall -- "Sweat" / Zora Neale Hurston -- Background to the Story. Research / Zora Neale Hurston. Characteristics of Negro Expression / Zora Neale Hurston. Negotiating Respect: Patterns of Presentation among Black Women / Roger D. Abrahams. A Selection of Blues and Spirituals. Genesis 1-3. Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- The Gilded Six-Bits / Zora Neale Hurston -- Critical Essays. From Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography / Robert E. Hemenway. Breaking out of the Conventions of Dialect / Gayl Jones. The Artist in the Kitchen: The Economics of Creativity in Hurston's "Sweat" / Kathryn Lee Seidel. From Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston's Cosmic Comedy / John Lowe. "I Love the Way Janie Crawford Left Her Husbands": Zora Neale Hurston's Emergent Female Hero / Mary Helen Washington. Looking for Zora / Alice Walker

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