Word: hurston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both Negro Author Turpin and Negro Author Hurston paint their racial pictures, with little shading, in glistening blacks and lurid tans. But to white readers who object to their violent brushwork they might truthfully reply: Negro life is violent. Author Turpin's story traces the fortunes of a Negro family from its uprooting in the Civil War to its rootless present. Martha, daughter of a plantation slave, died too soon to prevent her daughter from growing up in a bawdy house. Her granddaughter, starting off as a respectable farmer's wife, ended up on the Harlem stage, mothered...
THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD- Zora Neale Hurston-Lippincott...
...scale. SUPERSTITION CORNER-Sheila Kaye-Smith-Harper ($2.50). Adventures of a Roman Catholic heroine under Protestant Queen Bess; by the author of Joanna Godden. MARIA PALUNA-Blair Niles-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Latin-American historical romance (Guatemala) treated in the grand manner. JONAH'S GOURD VINE-Zora Neale Hurston-Lippincott ($2). Negro novel by a Negress. Non-Fiction...