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"An introduction to Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their eyes were watching God for high school students, which includes biographical background on the author, explanations of various literary devices and techniques, and literary criticism for the novice reader"--Provided by publisher.
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"Like many artists before her, Zora Neale Hurston received virtually no recognition for her work until after her death. Hurston began her career as an anthropologist, observing and documenting the tension of race relations in the American South. She strove to expose the horrific practice of "paramour rights," wherein white men sexually exploited black women in their employment. But this work and her later fiction (including the now famous Their Eyes...
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Flamboyant and unpredictable, writer Zora Neale Hurston was a pioneering anthropologist, celebrated novelist, and noted intellectual, conversational to the end. The author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, she traveled coast-to-coast collecting Black folk culture. The acclaimed film uses Hurston's film footage and weaves a reenactment of an actual 1943 radio interview with Hurston, played by Kim Brockington.
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This documentary recounts the role of the Federal Writers Project as the largest cultural experiment in the nation's history. Program focuses on the role played by writers who recorded local and oral histories all over the nation, many finding national acclaim as a result.
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