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This anthology of Zora Neale Hurston's work includes "Sweat" and "The Gilded Six-Bits". The volume also includes the 1934 essay "Characteristics of Negro-Expression", with excerpts from her autobiography "Dust Tracks on the Road" - with critical commentary.
List of contents
Introduction
Chronology
"Sweat"
Background to the Story
Research
Characteristics of Negro Expressions
Negotiating Respect: Patterns of Presentation among Black Women
A Selection of Blues and Spirituals
Genesis 1-3
Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text
The Gilded Six-Bits
Critical Essays
From Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography
Breaking out of the Conventions of Dialect
The Artist in the Kitchen: The Economies of Creativity in Hurston's "Sweat"
From Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston's Cosmic Comedy
"I Love the Way Janie Crawford Left her Husbands": Zora Neale Hurston's Emergent Female Hero
Looking for Zara
Selected Bibliography
Permissions
About the author
Cheryl Wall is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University. She is the editor of Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women (Rutgers University Press) and the author of Women of Letters of the Harlem Renaissance.
