Word: hurston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...essay on Zora Neale Hurston's autobiography, Alice Walker writes of the disillusionment she faced in reading the "false-sounding" memoirs of her idol's life...
...recognize them now, how can we leave Ralph Ellison, W.E.B. DuBois, Virginia Woolf, Simone De Beauvoir or Zora Neale Hurston off of our lists of contributors to Western civilization...
...clear to me what I, a white deconstructor, was doing talking about Zora Neale Hurston, a black novelist and anthropologist, or to whom I was talking... Was I talking to white critics, black critics, or myself...
From that point on, his life becomes a series of oppositions. A young black girl like Janie of Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) may see that she is beautiful, but how can black be beautiful if the standard of beauty is to be white, blond, fair? How can black be good if cleanliness (whiteness) is next to godliness, if Satan is the Prince of Darkness, if there are blackguards and blackmail, black thoughts and black deeds? To be in the dark is one thing, but to see the light is quite another. Images...