Zora And Me The Cursed Ground
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Author | : T. R. Simon |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-09-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0763699632 |
A powerful fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston’s childhood adventures explores the idea of collective memory and the lingering effects of slavery. “History ain’t in a book, especially when it comes to folks like us. History is in the lives we lived and the stories we tell each other about those lives.” When Zora Neale Hurston and her best friend, Carrie Brown, discover that the town mute can speak after all, they think they’ve uncovered a big secret. But Mr. Polk’s silence is just one piece of a larger puzzle that stretches back half a century to the tragic story of an enslaved girl named Lucia. As Zora’s curiosity leads a reluctant Carrie deeper into the mystery, the story unfolds through alternating narratives. Lucia’s struggle for freedom resonates through the years, threatening the future of America’s first incorporated black township — the hometown of author Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960). In a riveting coming-of-age tale, award-winning author T. R. Simon champions the strength of a people to stand up for justice.
Author | : Victoria Bond |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0763643009 |
A tale inspired by the early life of Zora Neale Hurston finds the imaginative future author telling fantastical stories about a mythical evil creature until a racially charged murder threatens to shatter the peace in her turn-of-the-century Southern community. A first novel.
Author | : Zora Neale Hurston |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-07-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789394270206 |
"Warm, witty, imaginative. . . . This is a rich and winning book."-The New Yorker.The autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, one of America's most captivating and important authors, Dust Tracks on a Road, is daring, heartbreaking, and humorous. Hurston's dramatic Southern books, such as Jonah's Gourd Vine and, most famously, Their Eyes Were Watching God, continue to captivate readers with their lyrical beauty, piercing detail, and compelling emotionality. Dust Tracks on a Road was first published in 1942 and tells Hurston's personal narrative in her own words.
Author | : Tanya R. Simon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : African American girls |
ISBN | : 9781725478749 |
A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending. Includes an annotated bibliography of the works of Zora Neale Hurston, a short biography of the author, and information about Eatonville, Florida.
Author | : Victoria Bond |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2020-10-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0763695343 |
In the finale to the acclaimed trilogy, upheaval in Zora Neale Hurston’s family and hometown persuade her to leave childhood behind and find her destiny beyond Eatonville. For Carrie and her best friend, Zora, Eatonville—America’s first incorporated Black township—has been an idyllic place to live out their childhoods. But when a lynch mob crosses the town’s border to pursue a fugitive and a grave robbery resuscitates the ugly sins of the past, the safe ground beneath them seems to shift. Not only has Zora’s own father—the showboating preacher John Hurston—decided to run against the town’s trusted mayor, but there are other unsettling things afoot, including a heartbreaking family loss, a friend’s sudden illness, and the suggestion of voodoo and zombie-ism in the air, which a curious and grieving Zora becomes all too willing to entertain. In this fictionalized tale, award-winning author Victoria Bond explores the end of childhood and the bittersweet goodbye to Eatonville by preeminent author Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960). In so doing, she brings to a satisfying conclusion the story begun in the award-winning Zora and Me and its sequel, Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground, sparking inquisitive readers to explore Hurston’s own seminal work.
Author | : Turtleback Books Publishing, Limited |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2020-05-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781663601810 |
Author | : Zora Neale Hurston |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2008-06-03 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0813545129 |
Though she died penniless and forgotten, Zora Neale Hurston is now recognized as a major figure in African American literature. Best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she also published numerous short stories and essays, three other novels, and two books on black folklore. Even avid readers of Hurston’s prose, however, may be surprised to know that she was also a serious and ambitious playwright throughout her career. Although several of her plays were produced during her lifetime—and some to public acclaim—they have languished in obscurity for years. Even now, most critics and historians gloss over these texts, treating them as supplementary material for understanding her novels. Yet, Hurston’s dramatic works stand on their own merits and independently of her fiction. Now, eleven of these forgotten dramatic writings are being published together for the first time in this carefully edited and annotated volume. Filled with lively characters, vibrant images of rural and city life, biblical and folk tales, voodoo, and, most importantly, the blues, readers will discover a “real Negro theater” that embraces all the richness of black life.
Author | : Jennifer Burton |
Publisher | : G. K. Hall |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
"During the 1920s the annual literary contests sponsored by The Crisis and Opportunity magazines provided critical professional outlets for African-American women playwrights. The works presented here (both prize-winning plays and plays that received their first publication in such organs as The Saturday Evening Quill and Carolina Magazine) cover a wide range of dramatic genres - from propaganda plays and light comedies to melodramas, folk plays, and poetic drama."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Jeff Ashmead |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2012-06-28 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781475921939 |
What if you quit your job . . . Sold everything . . . and bought a small hotel on the beach . . . South of Cancun, Mexico and down a long narrow road ending in turquoise blue water, you will find Soliman Bay. Here is where most peoples dreams are found, a small bay, white sand and palm trees, and a reef just offshore full of colorful fish. If you are visiting, the dream looks real, but if you intend on staying the locals have one bit of advice - guard your sanity. Though it may not seem possible, this comedy you are about to read is 99% true. Names have been changed to protect the innocent. May you laugh at our expense.
Author | : James V. Hatch |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1992-01-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 081433847X |
Biographic information and a bibliographyof other plays follow each script, providing readers with added sources for study.