Cambridge Introduction to Zora Neale Hurston

Informationen zum Autor Lovalerie King is Assistant Professor of African American Literature at Pennsylvania State University. Klappentext Their Eyes Were Watching God is a key text in African American literature. Its author Zora Neale Hurston has become an iconic figure for her literary works and for her invaluable contribution to documenting elements of black folk culture in the rural south and in the Caribbean. This introductory book designed for students explores Hurston's artistic achievements and her unique character: her staunch individualism, her penchant for drama, her sometimes controversial politics, her philosophical influences and her views on gender relations. Lovalerie King explores Hurston's life and analyses her major works and short stories. Historical, social, political, and cultural contexts for Hurston's life and work, including her key role in the development of the Harlem Renaissance, are set out. The book concludes with an overview of the reception of Hurston's work, both in her lifetime and up to the present, as well as suggestions for further reading. Zusammenfassung Their Eyes Were Watching God is a key text in African American literature and its author Zora Neale Hurston has become an iconic figure. This introductory book designed for students explores Hurston's artistic achievements! explores her life and analyses her major works and short stories. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Life; 2. Contexts; 3. Works; 4. Critical reception; Suggestions for further reading; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Lovalerie King, Lovalerie (Pennsylvania State University) King, King Lovalerie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.09.2008
• EAN: 9780521854573
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85457-3
• No. of pages: 154
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Lit; Cambridge Introductions to Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form