Speak, so you can speak again : the life of Zora Neale Hurston

Name/Title

Speak, so you can speak again : the life of Zora Neale Hurston

Entry/Object ID

Library.2095

Description

36 p. : ill., map, facsims. ; 26 cm. + 1 CD (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) Speak, so you can speak again : the life of Zora Neale Hurston by Lucy Anne Hurston and the state of Zora Neale Hurston. Features pull-out facsimiles of cards, letters, manuscripts, etc. Includes cd of her speaking and singing, and never before published poems. Summary: 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. . Speak, So You Can Speak Again follows Hurston's life from her Eatonville, Florida, beginnings to her days as a student at Barnard College to her travels to the Caribbean to the peak of her literary fame as the star of the movement that would be called the Harlem Renaissance to her death in obscurity in a small Florida town. Here, her journey is documented through an interactive collection of photographs, poetry, articles, cards, and handwritten notes.---BOOK JACKET.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Hurston, Zora Neale., Folklorists -- United States -- Biography., African American authors -- Biography.

Publication Details

Author

Hurston, Lucy Anne.

Edition

1st ed.

Publisher

Doubleday

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

New York

Call No.

PS 3515 .U789 Z74 2004

ISBN

0385493754