Zora Neale Hurston

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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An American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. Her most popular novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God" was published in 1937. She also wrote other novels and more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays. Her work concerned the African-American experience, racial struggles in the early 20th century, and her own viewpoint as an African-American woman. In 1975, Alice Walker published an article in the March issue of Miss Magazine which revitalized interest in Hurston's work. Let's talk about Zora Neale Hurston. If you like this podcast, join The Liturgists to receive even more content like this and talk with other liturgists via our weekly video chat.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the liturgist podcast. You are now listening to Black History is American History.
0:08.3	I'm William Matthews and I'm propaganda. I'm Nikki Black. And I'm Andra Henry.
0:29.2	Today's moment in Black History, Zora Neal Hurston. Zora Neal Hurston was born on January 7th, 1891.
0:38.6	She was an American author, anthropologist and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the
0:44.9	early 20th century, American South and published research on Huru. The most popular of her four novels
0:52.1	is their eyes were watching God. And it was published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short
0:59.9	stories, plays and essays. Hurston was born in Notosoga, Alabama and moved with her family to
1:07.6	Eatonville, Florida in 1894. She later used Eatonville as the setting for many of her stories.
1:16.1	It is now the site of the Zora festival held each year in her honor. In her early career,
1:24.3	Hurston conducted anthropological and ethnographic research while a student at
1:29.8	Barnard College and Columbia University. She had an interest in African-American and Caribbean folklore
1:36.2	and how these contributed to the community's identity. She also wrote fiction about contemporary
1:42.6	issues in the Black community and became a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
1:47.8	Her short satires drawing from the African-American experience in racial division were published
1:53.5	in anthologies such as The New Negro and Fire. After moving back to Florida, Hurston
2:00.0	wrote and published her literary anthology on African-American folklore in North Florida,
2:05.4	Mules and Men. And her first three novels, Jonas Gordvine, Their Eyes Were Watching God,
2:13.3	and Moses, Man of the Mountain. Also published during this time was Tell My Horse,
2:20.4	Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica, documenting her research on rituals in Jamaica and Haiti.
2:27.6	Hurston's works concerned both the African-American experience and her struggles as an African-American
2:34.0	woman. Her novels went relatively unrecognized by the literary world for decades.
2:39.8	Interest was revived in 1975 after author Alice Walker published an article in Search of Zoranil
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